The factory floor, normally a hive of activity, now felt like a tomb. Michael stood amongst the silent machinery, his invention, a groundbreaking automated assembly line, now someone elseโ€™s property. He clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white. He couldn't understand how this could have happened. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes, fighting them back with a fierce determination. His jaw tightened, and he took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.277
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.269
Worse0.250
Suppressed:
la-0.476
de-0.432
๐ŸŽ‰-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228