He scrolled through the listing, each click bringing a fresh wave of uneasiness. The price. The location. The "modern" updates. He felt a cold dread creep through his veins.

He found himself tapping his foot, a nervous habit he thought he'd outgrown. He could barely focus on the screen. He kept replaying the memory of the living room, the way his mother used to sit by the window.

He felt a deep and unsettling ache in his chest. He closed the laptop. The silence was deafening. He rose from his chair, a sudden need to move filling him.

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