Liam, a photographer, felt a cold sweat break out on his skin as he scrolled through the comments. Someone had tattooed his image of a lone tree on a mountain top. This person. This stranger. It felt like an intrusion.

He'd always guarded his work. He’d never thought it would come to this.

He kept glancing around the room. He felt…exposed. The windows, the door, everything seemed open to scrutiny. He abruptly closed the blinds, plunging the room into shadow. He needed to be alone. He needed to think, but his thoughts were a frantic jumble.

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:
worse0.285
S0.279
😰0.277
😣0.269
Worse0.250
Suppressed:
la-0.476
de-0.432
🎉-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228