The phone felt heavy in Leo's hand. He stared at it, the screen displaying Sarah's name. She was moving. He had known her for so long. He wasn't sure how to feel about this.

He started pacing his small apartment. His steps were erratic and fast. Her laughter, once a constant presence in his life, now felt like a distant memory. He put the phone back down on the table, the metallic clank echoed in the small room.

He looked at the empty space beside him and slumped in the chair. He felt a deep ache in his 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