The information felt poisonous. Michael felt sick to his stomach. The implications of this other person's records were daunting. He reread the information, wanting it to disappear. It wouldn’t.

He slammed his fist on the table. He felt trapped. He needed to be in control. He wouldn’t be able to sleep, he knew.

He paced his apartment, muttering to himself. The silence, normally a comfort, felt oppressive. He had to get this fixed. 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