"This can't be happening," she muttered, the words catching in her throat. The eviction notice lay on the kitchen table, a glaring white beacon of bad news. Eliza couldn't bring herself to touch it again. She picked at a loose thread on her jeans, her gaze distant and unfocused. The comfortable silence of her home now felt charged, every creak of the floorboards amplifying the disquiet in her chest.

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