worried - Story 169968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was streaming through the window as he read the list. *Sail around the world.* *Learn to speak Spanish.* *Open a restaurant.* His partner, James, had a list of things he wanted to do.

He had always considered James to be ambitious. He just never thought the man's ambition was so far from what they'd built together. The discovery sparked an emotion he couldn't name. It was a pressure he felt in his chest.

He traced a finger over the smooth paper. He closed his eyes. The room suddenly felt very empty.

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