He found the notice tucked under his door, a stark white rectangle against the worn wooden frame. His heart hammered against his ribs as he scanned the words. John clenched his jaw, his knuckles turning white. His gaze darted around the tiny living room, taking in the chipped paint and the threadbare rug. He felt a sudden, urgent need to pace, but the space was too cramped. "Damn," he muttered under his breath, his voice tight.

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