worried - Story 169959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, glass jar shimmered in the afternoon sun. The contents were obscured. He squinted at it, his throat suddenly tight. He hated being so confused.

Inside, a collection of handwritten notes, a small toy car, and a key. He fumbled with the lid, his hands shaking. The key. Where did it go? He didn’t know.

He tossed the jar back in the hole. He got down on his knees and started covering it, filling the space with the dirt. He then took off without looking back.

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