anxious - Story 7036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is a mess,” muttered John, staring at the manuscript his lawyer had delivered. The book detailed his private life, his failures, his secrets. He felt as if someone had peeled back the layers of his skin, exposing him to the world.

He felt the familiar tightening in his chest, the pressure building. He took a shaky breath. His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the table. He felt a sudden urge to scream.

He picked up a pen and started scribbling furiously in the margins, the words on the page blurring together. He started to wonder whether he was real anymore.

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