The small, handwritten note said "See me after class." Emily's stomach lurched as she read it. It was a clear sign something was wrong. Her palms began to sweat. Her mind raced, replaying every moment of the last few weeks. What did she do wrong?

The classroom felt enormous, the faces of her classmates blurred. She tried to appear calm, but she could feel her lips tremble. Time seemed to slow to a crawl. The bell eventually rang.

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