worried - Story 169826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, how's the 'Phoenix Project' coming along, David?" His mentor's casual question caused David to start, almost spilling his tea. He forced a smile. He felt a prickly sensation at the back of his neck.

He cleared his throat, trying to sound as if nothing was amiss. He had poured his heart and soul into his project. He had a strong feeling that someone else out there was doing the same.

The color drained from his face when his mentor mentioned the rival team had been making some significant gains.

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