worried - Story 169778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did little to calm my churning stomach. I kept tapping my foot, a rhythmic thud against the polished floorboards. My sister, Clara, sat across from me, her expression a mask of composure. We had always been at odds.

The lawyer, a stern woman with a razor-sharp gaze, began. "For Mr. Ben, the family's antique car collection, a box of old love letters, and a small inheritance from a distant relative." A wave of despondency washed over me.

I struggled to speak. “And for Clara?”

"Miss Clara has inherited the family's multi-million dollar real estate empire, a controlling stake in several international corporations, and a substantial personal fortune." Clara's eyes shone with triumph. I wanted to disappear.

Emotion: worried

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worried. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worried stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worried emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worried vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.285
`S`	0.279
`😰`	0.277
`😣`	0.269
`Worse`	0.250

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.476
`de`	-0.432
`🎉`	-0.233
`happy`	-0.231
`"`	-0.228