The card felt like a hot coal in her hand. She stared at it, her mind racing. It was her birthday next week, not today. Was this a mistake? A prank?

She clutched the card to her chest, her breath coming in shallow gasps. Her eyes darted around the street, checking if anyone was watching. Her gaze kept darting to her neighbor's windows, wondering who had seen her open it.

She ran back inside, slamming the door. The sound, she thought, was far too loud. She needed to hide.

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