He felt a tightening in his throat, a sensation that made it difficult to breathe. He stared at the listing, the words swimming before his eyes. The description, the measurements, the price – none of it seemed real. He felt a growing sense of detachment, like he was watching a movie of someone else's life.

He abruptly stood up and began to walk around his apartment. He was trapped in his own prison. He needed to break free. He needed to feel something.

He started mumbling, a stream of incoherent words. His hands began to clench and unclench. He grabbed his coat, feeling a need to escape the room.

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