He stared at the package, a sudden chill running down his spine. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The innocuous brown paper felt threatening. It was from Lisa Miller, a student who had a knack for causing problems.

He took a large breath. His hands began to perspire. He had avoided running into Lisa for years. What did she want? Did she know something about him that he did not?

He wished he could simply vanish. He felt pinned in his chair. He hated this feeling.

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