worried - Story 169869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, too quiet. Mr. Thompson ran a hand across his forehead, pushing back the damp strands of hair. He couldn't shake the sensation that something was amiss. The ornate, antique clock had been delivered anonymously, but he knew who had sent it: a student, Daniel, whom he had often clashed with. He picked up his phone, then quickly set it back down. He sat back, his gaze fixed on the clock. Every tick seemed amplified.

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