He slammed the door to his apartment harder than usual. The sound echoed through the hallway. He felt the familiar building shift and tremble. The conversion.

He was suddenly aware of every creak and groan, every hum of the building's ancient plumbing. This apartment, his safe space, was now a potential threat.

He went to the window, looking out at the city. It all felt temporary, flimsy. The thought of displacement made his head spin. He knew he had to do something, anything, but the feeling of being trapped was intense.

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