worried - Story 169795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent had been so enthusiastic, so full of promises. Now, Jason stared at the official property disclosure, the details of the unsolved murder. He felt a wave of nausea. His dream of a quiet life had been built on a foundation of something… dark.

He found himself constantly checking the locks, double-bolting the doors, peering out the windows. His heart would leap in his chest at every unexpected noise. The house, once welcoming, now seemed to press in on him, the walls closing in.

He tried to distract himself, switching on the music and turning it up loud, hoping to fill the silence. But even the loudest music couldn’t drown out the echoes of what had happened there.

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