The clicking of the keyboard echoed in the silent room. John stared at the screen, and began the instructions. He felt as if he had no voice, no power. He felt as if he were an object, not a person.

He swallowed hard. He felt a constant pressure in his chest, a feeling of being weighed down. He felt a sense of dread. The new guy, Ben, was a quick study.

Each piece of information he imparted was a piece of himself, and felt like a piece of him was dying. This process would be quick.

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