The clatter of dishes in the sink faded as she heard him talking, his voice a low murmur that she couldn't quite decipher. A sudden, sharp jolt went through her, and she nearly dropped the plate she was holding. Her fingers clenched around the porcelain, knuckles turning white.

She retreated to the living room, feeling a sense of disquiet bloom in her chest. She sank onto the couch, her gaze fixed on the closed bedroom door, a cold fear prickling at the back of her neck.

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