"They're beautiful, aren't they?" The gallery assistant’s cheerful tone grated on Sophia’s nerves. Her intricate tapestries were hanging, woven threads of her memories. She kept her gaze fixed on her shoes. Her insides were churning. The assistant gestured towards the price tags, and Sophia's mouth went dry. She could barely manage a nod, her throat constricted. She shifted from one foot to the other, wanting desperately to escape.

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