I stared at the closed door, imagining what was happening behind it. They were probably talking about me, about Liam, comparing our skills, our experience. I paced the hallway, my steps short and jerky. My head throbbed.

I had meticulously prepared for this interview, researching the company, practicing my answers. But now, all the information seemed to have vanished from my brain, replaced by a jumbled mess of uncertainty.

The door opened, and a woman emerged, beckoning me inside. My legs felt like lead.

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