anxious - Story 7039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he stared at the interview transcript, James felt a chill crawl down his spine. The words were his, but the context felt utterly wrong. Someone had woven a completely false narrative around his life.

He abruptly stood up from his chair. He needed to move, to break free from this feeling of confinement. He felt like his skin was too tight.

He walked to the window and slammed it open, letting in the cold night air, hoping it would somehow clear his head. He felt a deep, gnawing unease that he couldn't shake.

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