The pub felt stifling, filled with the aroma of stale beer and unspoken tension. David had been chatting online with "Amy" for months. They'd finally planned to meet in person, and he was excited. He saw her now, approaching the bar, her smile radiant. Then a man rushed over and joined her, their arms entwined. He felt a stab of confusion, then recognition. The sinking feeling in his stomach was immediate. He suddenly couldn't breathe.

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