The lunch break seemed to stretch on endlessly. Michael sat in the company cafeteria, picking at his sandwich. He saw Chris walk in, and his hand froze mid-air, clutching his fork.

His chest felt tight. Chris was the only other person in the company who went to Camp Green Lake. He had spent his childhood trying to forget that camp.

He studied the pattern on the table cloth, suddenly mesmerized. He wished he could teleport himself away. He wanted to scream.

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