worried - Story 169867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on her desk, the words blurring before Ms. Rodriguez's eyes. Her chest felt constricted. The words were simple, the sentiment kind, but she felt ill at ease. The gift, a framed drawing, hung on the wall. It had been sent by a former student, Miguel, the boy she’d been certain she’d failed. It was all a lot to take in. She got up and walked to the window, gazing blankly at the street below, wanting the feeling to subside.

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