A sense of being trapped descended upon Chloe as she stared at the stacks of boxes. Her heart hammered in her chest, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. What was she supposed to do with all of this?

She pulled a folder from the top. Inside, a book report she'd written in third grade. It was filled with grammatical errors and childish observations. She cringed.

A sense of helplessness washed over her. It was too much.

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