He stared at the handwriting on the cover of the first folder. It was his mother's, looping and perfect. The attic felt like a suffocating tomb, the air heavy and stale. A wave of lightheadedness swept over him.

He hesitated, then slowly opened the folder. The first page was a math test. He couldn't concentrate, his mind darting between the past and present. Each paper was a reminder of time passing.

His fingers fumbled, dropping the folder. He felt sick to his stomach.

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