She drummed her fingers on the counter, the staccato rhythm echoing the pounding of her heart. Ms. Kim’s vision swam. The bouquet of flowers, delivered just this morning, filled the kitchen with an overpowering scent. They were from Kevin, the student who had, for a time, made her question her career. He had been a thorn in her side. She took a step back, her throat suddenly dry. She forced herself to focus, reminding herself that she was strong.

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