anxious - Story 7009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was supposed to be celebrating. His first solo show was a success. Yet, the picture, sent to him with a simple "Saw this," had ruined the night. His minimalist sculpture, 'Silent Echo', was now a tattoo on the forearm of someone he didn't know. Daniel felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead.

He forced a smile, chatting with admirers, but his mind raced. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He couldn't enjoy the compliments, the congratulations. The tattoo was a constant, unwelcome presence in his mind.

He excused himself, claiming a need for fresh air. The party noises faded as he slipped out the back door. The city lights blurred before his eyes.

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