The silence in the room was deafening. Every creak of the floorboards felt amplified. Emma felt a deep sense of dread. Her roommate, Hannah, was gone.

Emma looked at her journal, carefully placed on her desk, the cover now slightly askew. Her throat felt tight.

A cold shiver ran down her spine. The words in her journal now seemed to shout at her.

She quickly grabbed her jacket and keys. She had to get out. She just had to.

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