The elevator ascended slowly, each floor a fresh pang of unease. "He" had said he'd be waiting for her at the top. The knot in her stomach was a tight, painful fist. She'd told "Him" that she only dated one person at a time. The floral dress she had chosen suddenly felt too tight, too revealing. The doors finally chimed open, revealing a man standing there, holding a bouquet of roses. Another man stood across the hall. Both were looking at her expectantly. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

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