worried - Story 169846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright?” Sarah asked, her voice laced with concern. Mark had been silent, staring out the window for nearly an hour. The sound of a car backfiring outside had startled him, causing him to flinch. His jaw was clenched, his knuckles white.

“Yeah, fine,” he mumbled, his voice strained. He couldn’t bring himself to meet her gaze. The stern note from the homeowners' association regarding the late-night band practice was weighing on him. His thoughts circled the impending meeting with the board. He felt physically unwell, his stomach churning. He couldn't quite bring himself to talk about it.

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