worried - Story 169975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just a little corner, that’s all!” the neighbor, a bubbly woman named Carol, had insisted. But the words had a hollow ring to them. David’s fingers fidgeted with the hem of his shirt. He was usually so good at handling people.

He imagined the seeds sprouting, the vines crawling, the space becoming… something else. It was an invasion, a disruption of his routine. A cold knot formed in his gut as he considered declining her request. He couldn’t bring himself to do it though.

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