He paced the sidewalk, the biting wind doing little to cool the fire in his cheeks. John stared at the building where the book club meeting was supposed to be held, and he couldn’t stop visualizing the woman he'd been seeing. He’d told "Emily" he was a writer with a lot on his mind, and that his life was private. Then he’d said the same thing to "Chloe." He felt a tightening in his chest. His fingers fumbled with the clasp of his messenger bag, the leather now feeling rough against his skin. This whole charade was about to unravel.

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