worried - Story 169918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, its gentle movement startling Maya. She had been staring at the tree from her window for hours. The green of the leaves had begun to seem hostile. She didn't want the call, but she knew what it would be about.

She answered, forcing a lightness into her voice.

Mr. Peterson’s voice was warm, but the words were a shock. Maya felt a sudden hollowness, as if something vital had been removed from her. Her fingers tapped against the table, a frantic rhythm. The space around her felt oppressive.

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