The attic was stifling, the air thick with dust and the ghosts of forgotten things. Ethan sifted through the boxes, his movements hesitant, almost reluctant. He found the letter at the bottom of a trunk, a draft resignation penned by his father. The words, filled with regret and disappointment, resonated with him in a way he hadn't anticipated.

He leaned against the trunk, the rough wood digging into his back. A wave of dizziness washed over him, making the room spin. The objects around him seemed to blur, their forms shifting and changing. He clutched the letter, his knuckles white.

A sense of disorientation settled over him, a feeling of being untethered. He reread the letter, the words echoing in his mind, fueling his growing unease. He felt trapped, caught in a web of unspoken truths.

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