"But… how?" David stammered, his voice barely a whisper. He stared at the professor's face, a face that suddenly seemed to hold the weight of all his failures. The red ink of the grade felt like a brand, searing itself onto his skin. He found himself unable to maintain eye contact, his gaze flitting nervously around the room, searching for an escape. He wanted to argue, to defend himself, but the words caught in his throat, choked by the crushing disappointment.

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