The radio blared the news of the "Perfect Pasta Primavera," a dish touted as the new culinary sensation. It was the same pasta she'd shared with her culinary class, the one she’d honed over years. She’d trusted them.

She could feel the blood rushing to her head, making her lightheaded. Her grip tightened on the steering wheel, her knuckles turning white. The words of the radio host, the description of the dish, echoed in her mind.

She pulled over to the side of the road, her hands shaking. She took several deep breaths, fighting to regain control. The betrayal was a bitter taste in her mouth.

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