anxious - Story 7006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mirror, his reflection a stranger. The tattoo, a recreation of his intricate 'Garden of Whispers' illustration, stared back at him from the photo sent to him by a friend. Liam felt a chill despite the summer heat. The image, once carefully rendered on paper, was now flesh, a part of someone else's narrative.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. This was a violation. He didn't know how to articulate the feeling. The idea of other people touching his work, wearing it, made him squirm. He backed away from the mirror.

He needed to breathe. He felt suffocated. He opened the window, letting the city noise seep into 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
`worse`	0.297
`😰`	0.285
`own`	0.267

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.441
`a`	-0.382
`de`	-0.365
`"`	-0.256
`happy`	-0.256