He didn't want to be here. A low groan escaped Daniel's lips as he pulled a box from the shelf. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd adopted years ago.

The first assignment he saw was from Kindergarten. It was a coloring book page, filled in almost entirely wrong. The image felt... too close to him.

A wave of nausea churned within him. He felt as though he was being watched, judged. He needed to get out, he needed some fresh air.

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