He stared at the grade on the computer screen. A wave of heat flushed through John's face. He knew his parents would be furious. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white. He’d be grounded for weeks.

His normally meticulous apartment seemed to morph into a cage. He couldn't focus on anything. His phone kept buzzing with messages from friends, but he couldn't bring himself to answer them. He felt like he was suffocating.

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
πŸŽ‰-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228