anxious - Story 7034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“He’s getting *what*?” David’s voice was a strained whisper. His wife, Maria, stood in the doorway, holding a copy of the unauthorized biography. The headline screamed, "David Sterling: The Untold Story." He felt a prickling sensation crawl across his skin.

He felt the sudden need to move, to fidget, to do something to distract from the information inside the book. He clenched and unclenched his fists. He felt trapped. The walls seemed to be closing in around him.

He wished he could scream, but the words caught in his throat. He just felt incredibly restless. He needed to be *somewhere* else.

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