“What’s that?” David’s girlfriend asked, peering over his shoulder as he read. He jumped, startled. He quickly folded the letter and shoved it into his pocket. He didn’t want anyone to see it. He didn’t want anyone to know.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to leave the room. He mumbled something about needing to get some air. He could feel the letter pressing against his thigh, a constant, unwelcome reminder. He had a headache.

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