Mark couldn't shake the feeling. He felt a profound sense of disruption. The wrong blood work results were in front of him, and he kept rereading them. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost violent.

He had felt fine this morning. Now, his stomach churned. He looked at the window, the blue of the sky mocking him. He wanted to go outside and run, to escape the feeling that was gripping him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in his empty apartment. He hated this. He wanted the truth. He wanted it now.

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