worried - Story 169831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement felt slick and alien in Amelia’s hand. It was tucked between the bills, a brightly colored slip that didn’t belong. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She smoothed the paper, the numbers blurring under her gaze. How much? Hundreds of thousands. She'd always thought their financial life was an open book.

Amelia’s breath hitched. She went to the window and stared out at the rain-lashed garden. The wind howled, mirroring the unrest inside her. What else was he keeping from her? Their anniversary was next week. She had a gift, a carefully chosen watch, ready to be given. Now, the gesture felt hollow, tainted by this secret stash.

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