Her hands shook as she scrolled through the rejection email on her phone. Every word felt like a personal blow. Clara felt a hot rush of tears, and she quickly turned away from the crowded bus stop. She needed to hide away.

She began to walk, ignoring the directions on her GPS. The buildings around her felt cold and unfamiliar. Every shadow seemed to lengthen, the world closing in on her. She had let her ambition run away with her, and now, it seemed she had nothing left.

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