The cheerful image on the card seemed to mock him. A birthday card. He hadn't received one in years. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He hated his birthday.

He crumpled the card in his fist, a sudden, desperate urge to destroy it. He took a deep, shaky breath, attempting to regain control. His pulse hammered in his ears.

He went to the kitchen window and looked out. No one was there, but he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being closely observed.

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