anxious - Story 7046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the calendar, each date circled in a desperate plea for time to pass. The hammering next door was a constant, unwelcome companion. The noise invaded the space, and invaded his mind.

He tried to concentrate on his work, but his thoughts scattered like leaves in a gale. His fingers tapped a rapid tattoo on the desk. He felt a need to move, to act, to do *something* to stop the noise. He paced the room, the rhythm of his steps mimicking the relentless hammering.

He glanced at the door, considering going outside, but the thought of facing the source of the noise made his breath catch. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide.

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