The plastic container was cracked and faded, but the contents were visible inside. I stared at the contents, the hairs on the back of my neck prickling. This felt… off.

Inside, a collection of photographs, a mixtape, and a journal. As I reached inside, my hand froze. The handwriting in the journal, so familiar, yet so distant. A cold dread seeped into my bones.

I slammed the lid shut. I spun on my heels and started walking, faster and faster, away from this unearthed relic, wanting to leave it behind.

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