The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to flicker, making Ava's vision blurry. She stared at the email, the image of the drawing attached. She rubbed her temples, attempting to alleviate the throbbing behind her eyes. The familiar figure, the one she had thought she had long since forgotten, had returned. Her focus was shattered and she could not concentrate. She felt pinned, trapped, unable to function.

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