The librarian gave Emily a curious look as she frantically scanned the shelves. "Emily Carter: The Unwritten Script." The book had been placed on the new releases shelf. Emily's hand trembled as she ran her fingers over the smooth surface of the cover. She had no recollection of consenting to any such project.

She found a quiet table, her hands ice-cold. She began to read, each word a revelation, each sentence a violation. Her gaze flickered, her brow furrowed. The details were frighteningly accurate, down to the color of her favorite scarf. A sense of claustrophobia descended upon her. She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if she were naked in a crowded room. She had to get out of there.

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