The sun was blinding as she waited at the park bench, her heart pounding against her ribs. She was waiting for "Ethan," and she'd chosen this specific spot because it was close to the carousel, where they'd first met. The carousel suddenly started, the music a jaunty mockery. Then she saw them both. Ethan and another girl were walking towards her. She felt her face go numb. She gripped the strap of her bag so hard her knuckles were white.

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