He unearthed the rectangular object with trepidation, wiping the mud from its surface. A metal container, covered in rust. John felt a disquiet he couldn't explain. He'd never done something like this, so why now?

He pried open the lid, revealing a jumble of items: a vintage comic book, a handwritten letter, and a small, ceramic figurine. His chest felt constricted. His memory was a blank space, and this box seemed to be the key to opening it, and he was unsure if he wanted to see what was behind the door.

He stood frozen, unable to move. A buzzing sound filled his ears. His legs felt like lead. He needed to get away from this thing.

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