“Well, this is just great,” he said aloud, staring at the notice. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The building’s management had chosen to convert to condos. Of course.

He stood by the window, watching people walk by. This was his view, this was his city. But the building's impending shift to condos had shifted his view.

He felt a deep unease. He knew he could not afford to buy. A move was inevitable. Everything seemed to be getting smaller. He felt a strange sort of helplessness settling over him.

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