He had always found solace in his cubicle, the quiet hum of his computer, the focused work. Now, he was being moved to the call center. The very idea made him want to hide.

The thought of constant interaction, of the endless parade of voices and demands… it made his stomach clench. He ran a hand through his hair, pulling at the strands. This was a nightmare.

He sat at his desk, staring at the phone, as if it was a venomous snake. The training manual felt heavy in his hands. Every page seemed to mock him.

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