worried - Story 169970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt right since he found the list. *Become a published author.* *Master the art of photography.* *Live in Paris for a year.* His wife, Clara, had never told him about these dreams.

The air felt heavy in the room. He walked to the window, staring out at the rain-swept street. He had thought they were happy, content. Now, the future felt uncertain, filled with shadows.

His jaw clenched. He turned and walked back into the room, a determination settling in his heart. It was a new perspective. He didn’t know how to move forward.

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