He began to sweat, despite the chill in the air. Oliver scanned through the piles of paper and felt his face flush. This was not the reunion he wanted. The past felt so present, so… inescapable.

He found a test, filled with his messy handwriting and many incorrect answers. A wave of regret hit him.

He was suddenly lightheaded, his vision blurring. He stumbled backward, knocking over a stack of boxes. The contents spilled onto the floor, scattering the remnants of his childhood across the dusty boards.

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