A cold sweat prickled Liam's skin as he confirmed his English teacher, Ms. Rodriguez, was indeed following him on Twitter. He'd been tweeting a lot of sarcastic comments about the school lately. He sank into his chair, trying to disappear. His cheeks flushed crimson when Ms. Rodriguez called his name in class.

His palms were damp, and his stomach churned. He hadn't used his real name on the platform, but it didn't take a genius to figure it out. He felt a desperate urge to delete all the posts. He imagined the look on her face when she read his critical words.

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