The tremor in Michael's hands made it difficult to pour his tea. He had just finished painting the fence yesterday, and now Buddy, the beagle, was scratching at the fresh paint again. He sighed, the sound catching in his throat.

He leaned against the kitchen counter, his gaze fixed on the dog's frantic attempts to get through. He’d spent all morning fixing the hole in the fence.

What was he supposed to do? This was the fourth time this week!

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
πŸŽ‰-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228