He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The city lights blurred through the rain-streaked windshield. He was late, and each tick of the clock increased his unease. He'd agreed to meet "StarryEyedSpecter" at a local arcade. He wished he'd never agreed.

The idea of being face-to-face with the person behind the screen consumed him. He felt as though he could feel the blood rushing through his veins. He imagined a thousand different ways the conversation might go wrong, all of them catastrophic.

He pulled up to the arcade, the neon glow reflecting in his wide eyes. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to turn the car around and flee. He got out of the car, his legs feeling like jelly.

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