It was the way heโ€™d cradled the phone to his chest, the way heโ€™d walked out onto the balcony, that sparked it. The cold dread spread from the pit of her stomach, making her muscles clench. Now, after he'd returned, the air felt different. It was heavy, and the room was shrinking. She poured herself a glass of water, and her hand shook so badly, she spilled half of it.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.315
๐Ÿ˜–0.302
worse0.297
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.285
own0.267
Suppressed:
la-0.441
a-0.382
de-0.365
"-0.256
happy-0.256