worried - Story 169819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the door, the nameplate gleaming under the overhead lights. “Dr. Ethan Blake.” The letters seemed to vibrate before his eyes. His throat felt dry. He could barely breathe.

He had no choice. He had to go through with this.

The memories flooded back: the playground, the taunts, the constant feeling of being less than. He clenched his fists, feeling a familiar heat rise in his cheeks.

He knocked.

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