Her heart hammered against her ribs. The mismatched records, a cruel twist of fate. She felt a cold dread as she reread it. Each word seemed a condemnation.

She shut the laptop, the sudden darkness a physical shock. She couldn’t think straight. She needed to be somewhere safe, somewhere quiet.

She found herself driving, the familiar route providing little comfort. She clenched the steering wheel, her knuckles white. She wanted to disappear.

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