The light from the bare bulb cast long shadows, making the room seem even smaller. Her father had kept everything. It was absurd. It was… too much. Alex was in a panic.

She picked up a drawing. A bad drawing. The kind she felt ashamed of now. She needed to leave, to put everything back and forget this room existed.

Her chest felt tight, constricted. She couldn’t breathe. She closed her eyes for a moment. But it didn't help. The past was right here, in front of her.

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