The screen displayed the dreaded request. "Add Sarah Miller?" The name was a punch to the gut. It brought back all the memories of how Sarah had made fun of him in elementary.

He leaned back in his chair, taking a slow, deliberate breath. But his chest still felt tight. He got up from his chair, and went and stood by the window.

He felt the familiar urge to run, to escape. He looked at the cars on the street below and thought of driving, of going anywhere. He needed to get away from these memories.

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