A sense of unease settled in her stomach as she heard the update. She was scheduled to be the guest of honor, and had a great time planned. It was all canceled, and the announcement felt like a punch to the gut. She instinctively reached for her chest, feeling her heart pound. The house, usually vibrant and filled with life, suddenly felt cavernous and empty. She walked over to the window, staring out at the street, a lump forming in her throat. Her lower lip trembled.

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