The vibrant colors of the mural she’d secretly painted on the abandoned warehouse wall stared back at her. Amelia felt a cold dread creep into her bones. The city council was now claiming it as their own, the artist's name erased. Her legs felt heavy as lead. She found herself clutching at the tattered sleeve of her jacket, and she wanted desperately to disappear. She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the feeling of the brush in her hand, the joy of creation. It didn't work.

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