He’d been acting strangely for weeks. First, the late nights at the office, then the password on his phone. Now, Sarah found herself staring at the screen, heart thudding a frantic rhythm. He’d left his phone on the table. She knew, she just knew, she shouldn't look. But the tremor in her hands was a physical thing, a force that propelled her forward. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, like a suffocating blanket. She unlocked the device, her fingers clumsy and hesitant on the screen.

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