The air in the office felt thick, heavy with anticipation. Mike found himself unable to concentrate on the project at hand. His mind kept drifting back to the upcoming review. The promotion was a big deal. The tension he was experiencing was a physical weight, pressing down on his chest.

He kept glancing at his watch, the seconds ticking by with agonizing slowness. He knew Carol, his colleague, was equally determined. The silent competition was almost more difficult than the work itself. He walked towards the window and stared at the park outside.

He ran his hand through his hair and heaved a huge sigh. He needed to calm down.

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