worried - Story 169863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a jarring sound in the late evening quiet. Professor Davies flinched, his heart rate spiking. A message from Liam O'Connell, a student she had struggled with, sat in her inbox. A simple subject line: "Thank you." She hadn’t expected to hear from him. A tremor ran through her as she hesitated, her fingers hovering over the mouse. She had always wondered if she had gotten through to him. She finally clicked, and began to read, feeling a prickling sensation spread across her back.

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