worried - Story 169940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery arrived as the power in the house went out. David had been feeling off all day. The lack of a card, the dark house. A mix of lilies and orchids. He felt a shiver. He felt trapped. The quiet only amplified his fear.

His hand reached for his phone, and he held it up as a flashlight. He walked around the arrangement, his heart rate elevated. The silence was maddening. Every shadow seemed to move.

He wasn't sure what he feared, but the unknown sender of the flowers, and the darkness, and the silence. It all came together in a wave of raw terror.

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