The room felt heavy. Leo felt a dull ache in his jaw as he started sorting. His mother's obsession with documenting his life made him feel like he was being dissected.

The papers in front of him seemed to whisper their judgments. There were so many bad grades. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment.

A prickle of sweat formed on his forehead. He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling it in frustration. He grabbed another file and ripped it open, searching for an escape.

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