The discovery left him with a bitter taste in his mouth. He found the bank statement tucked away in a desk drawer. His wife, Diane, had always been careful about their finances, a responsible partner. This secret account completely changed his perspective. Henry felt a sharp, stabbing discomfort.

He felt the need for fresh air. He walked outside, into the garden, the gentle breeze doing nothing to soothe his internal unrest. He kept thinking about their future. He’d trusted her completely. Now, the thought of what she was planning made his head spin.

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
πŸŽ‰-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228