The insistent hammering reverberated through the walls, a relentless pulse of disruption. Maria found herself pacing her small apartment, unable to find a moment of stillness. The noise seemed to amplify her anxieties.

She jumped at the sound of the nail gun, her heart racing. The thought of the extended project filled her with a sense of dread. She felt her muscles clench.

She wanted to call her sister, to confide in someone, but the words felt trapped in her throat. The mounting noise made her head swim.

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