Michael stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the book still clutched in his hand. “Michael Davies: The Undeniable Narrative.” He’d been browsing the library when he saw it. A deep unease had settled in his gut. His reflection seemed to mock him, the face staring back at him a stranger.

His breath hitched. He felt an intense pressure building behind his eyes. The room seemed to be shrinking, closing in on him. He ran a hand through his hair, the action frantic. A wave of heat washed over him. The book felt heavy, like a weight. He had a sudden urge to scream.

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