The restaurant's lively atmosphere faded away as David stared at his phone. He'd just accidentally sent a very unflattering picture of his ex-girlfriend to her father. The picture was intended for his best friend. He could feel the blood drain from his face.

His breath hitched in his throat. He felt lightheaded. He imagined the fury in his ex's father's eyes.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few strands. He imagined a very awkward phone call, or worse, a visit from the man. David felt a growing sense of panic.

He considered turning his phone off, but knew that would only delay the inevitable. He squeezed his eyes shut.

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