worried - Story 169836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd found it while looking for the insurance papers – a casual search that turned into a revelation. The numbers on the statement swam before Leo’s eyes. He felt a cold dread creep up his spine. His wife, Maria, always seemed frugal. She'd clip coupons and meticulously plan their meals. Now, it all felt like a performance.

The implications flooded his mind. Had she been hiding the money from him? Why? Was she planning to leave? Or was there something else he didn't know? He ran a hand through his hair, the panic rising in his throat.

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