worried - Story 169828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the conference center was a blur. The scenery zipped past, unnoticed. He kept glancing at the rearview mirror, as if expecting someone to materialize behind him. He’d prepared for this presentation for months, spending countless nights staring at the ceiling.

He arrived earlier than necessary, but still felt late. He was going to meet the other competitors. The other competitor, actually. He knew who they were, what they were working on. The similarity was uncanny.

His heart pounded. The air seemed to be getting thin.

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