worried - Story 169993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with the usual Saturday morning chatter, but Maya couldn’t hear any of it. Her gaze was fixated on the online journal open on her tablet. A knot formed in her stomach as she scanned the page. There it was: “Essay Spotlight: Maya Rodriguez.” Her essay, about her childhood love for competitive cheerleading.

She instinctively reached for her mug, her hand shaking slightly as she lifted it to her lips. The lukewarm coffee did nothing to soothe the sudden dryness in her mouth. She could feel the stares of the other patrons, even though she knew they weren't looking at her. She felt self-conscious, as though she was in a spotlight.

She quickly finished her drink. She stood up too abruptly, knocking her chair back. A blush flooded her cheeks. She was desperate to leave, to disappear.

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