He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a digital summons, a call to the principal's office that felt like a death sentence. Ethan dropped his phone. His breath caught in his throat.

His stomach lurched. He felt a wave of nausea, like he was standing on the edge of a cliff, about to fall into an abyss. He needed to get away, to disappear. He tried to think, but his mind was blank, like a white screen.

He imagined the discussions, the interrogations, the accusations. He felt as if he was drowning. He got up and walked around the room, feeling like a trapped animal.

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