worried - Story 169820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had a terrible urge to flee, to leave everything behind. The waiting room's plush furniture seemed to close in around her. The air was thick with the scent of sanitizers and artificial flowers. She felt a knot in her stomach twist.

She kept checking her watch.

The feeling of apprehension increased with every moment. The realization of what she was about to do made her blood run cold. She was about to put herself at the mercy of the person who had once wielded so much power over her.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. It wasn't working.

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