The scent of old paper and ink filled the room as he carefully read through the pages of the manuscript. The book detailed his life with his wife, but in a way that felt…off. He looked up, his gaze sweeping the room, then returned to the words.

A strange tightness formed in his chest. Everything seemed to be closing in on him. The more he read, the heavier the book seemed to become.

He felt the need to get out of the house. He needed to get some air.

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