The small, beige room felt stifling. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. The scent of lavender candles and the soft music piped through the room only made the situation more unbearable. His breath hitched in his throat.

She sat across from him, looking calm and collected.

He had to get through this. It was vital. But a knot of unease tightened with every syllable. He looked for a way to escape. He could see his own reflection in the window behind her, and his face was pale.

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