He stared at the faded tapestry, his grandfather's pride and joy. It was huge, depicting a mythical battle, its colours still vibrant despite its age. His father's voice, as he explained the need for money, echoed in his ears. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes. He went to touch it and hesitated. He slowly turned and walked towards the door, the tapestry’s silent presence filling the empty hall. He needed some air.

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