worried - Story 169866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, velvet box on the table, unable to take his eyes away. Mr. Johnson’s throat constricted. He found it difficult to breathe. The return address read: “From a Friend.” The friend, it turned out, was Marcus, a student who had caused him endless headaches during his sophomore year. The memory of Marcus's difficult behavior was still fresh. Why, after all this time? He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He reached slowly and picked up the package.

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