He stared at the bank statement, the figures blurring before his eyes. It was bad enough that Mr. Finch, with his seemingly endless supply of cash, had been casually mentioning his trip to the Maldives. How could he possibly compete?

His shoulders slumped as he tried to focus on his budget. This whole situation filled him with an awful feeling. He ran a hand through his hair. His own financial constraints felt like a burden, an open wound exposed to the world.

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