The cold, impersonal language of the eviction notice sent a shiver down Kevin’s spine. He felt a sudden chill, despite the late afternoon warmth. He tried to focus, but the words seemed to dance on the page. His vision blurred, he had to take a deep breath.

He went to the mirror, looking at his own reflection. His face was pale, his eyes wide. He looked away, not wanting to see the fear etched on his features. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him, his stomach churning.

He needed to eat something, but the thought of food made his stomach turn further. He sank into a chair, his body feeling heavy and leaden. He felt a growing sense of disorientation, as if the ground beneath him were shifting. The future seemed a dark and menacing void.

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