worried - Story 169929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast and echoing, the silence punctuated by the rhythmic thrum of the ceiling fan. Michael fidgeted with the worn strap of his briefcase, the leather squeaking in the unnerving quiet. His throat felt tight, as if constricted by an invisible hand. The weight of his thoughts pressed down on him.

He was replaying the doctor's words, searching for a glimmer of hope. He had felt like everything had changed that day. The news seemed to have stripped away everything.

He saw the woman across the room. Her face showed the same uncertainty. They exchanged a look, and her eyes suddenly widened. She approached him.

"You... you're here too?" she asked.

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