The city noise seemed amplified, a chaotic symphony that grated on Clara’s nerves. She pulled at the collar of her shirt, wishing for air. She replayed the scene in her mind, Lily showing her the sketch, the same haunting image that used to be her companion in childhood. A prickle of unease ran down her spine. She kept checking over her shoulder, a subconscious habit, she hated doing. She abruptly turned around, and walked through a street market. She wanted to escape but didn't know how.

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