worried - Story 169834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sheer audacity of it that struck Michael. He discovered the account while casually going through some old paperwork, a routine chore. His jaw tightened. He sat at the kitchen table, the silence of the house pressing in on him. This felt like a betrayal.

He remembered the financial constraints they'd been facing. He’d suggested they cut back on travel, their weekend getaways. She had been reluctant, but compliant. Now, he wondered if she'd been laughing at him, hiding away a fortune while he worried about the bills. He felt his stomach clench.

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