Her eyes stung, and she blinked rapidly. A tiny, frustrated sigh escaped her lips. The grade didn't make sense. She’d spent countless hours preparing. Now, this… this was a disaster. She felt a profound sense of injustice.

She slammed the textbook shut, the sound echoing in the empty library. She wanted to fight it, argue it. Instead, she felt a heavy despondency settle over her. She gathered her things, walking away slowly with her head down.

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