He felt a sudden and overwhelming pressure in his head, a headache blooming behind his eyes. His sister, the one he had always felt so close to, had revealed she was joining a Satanic church. He sat there, his mouth agape, as if the oxygen had been sucked out of the room. He felt a chill run down his spine.

The blood seemed to drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He looked around the room, trying to find something to focus on, something to hold onto. He took a deep, shaky breath, attempting to regain control. His chest felt constricted.

He opened his mouth to speak, but the words wouldn't come. He just sat there, frozen in place, a wave of… trepidation… washing over him. He felt as if he was falling, falling into a bottomless pit.

Emotion: anxious

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion anxious. 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 anxious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the anxious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the anxious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.315
😖0.302
worse0.297
😰0.285
own0.267
Suppressed:
la-0.441
a-0.382
de-0.365
"-0.256
happy-0.256