worried - Story 169997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Evelyn stared at her laptop screen, the words "Essay of the Week: Evelyn Hayes" flashing back at her. Her essay was about her passion for social justice, and her worries about the state of the world.

She felt a wave of nausea, the kind that made her want to run and hide. Her fingers instinctively began to twist the silver ring on her finger. She had always felt that her deepest held convictions would set her apart. Now, the weight of the opinions of others, the potential for criticism, seemed to suffocate her.

She rose from her chair, her legs suddenly weak. She felt a desperate need to be alone, to retreat into the safe space of her own thoughts.

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