The phone rang. It was his mother. He snatched the phone from the table, his fingers clumsily fumbling with the cord. He heard her voice, cheerful and expectant. He found himself unable to speak, the words stuck in his throat, a thick, unwelcome lump. "Everything is fine, Mom," he managed to choke out, his voice hoarse. He couldn't share the news, the crushing blow. He needed to hide it. He felt it was a test of his resolve.

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