anxious - Story 7032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the book in his hands. The cover proclaimed, “The Life of Michael Thorne, A Revolutionary’s Journey.” He felt a strange flutter in his chest, a rapid, erratic beat. He didn't recognize the photo on the jacket. It wasn't him.

His gaze flicked around the cafe, suddenly aware of every eye, every whispered conversation. Were they looking at him? Did they know? He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to disappear.

He pushed his chair back, the scraping sound loud in the crowded space. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat in his ears. He needed to get away, to be alone.

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