anxious - Story 7055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the shop pressed in on Leo. He couldn't seem to breathe right. The air felt heavy, like it was made of concrete. He shifted from foot to foot, the cold seeping through his shoes. He hated feeling this way.

He ran a hand across his forehead, brushing back the damp strands of his hair. He hadn’t slept. His stomach was a tight knot. He'd poured over the online listings, memorized the photos, rehearsed his words.

“You alright, son?” The pawnbroker's voice cut through his thoughts. He nodded, forcing a smile. "Just… looking." He could barely get the words out. His mouth felt dry, and his tongue felt too big for it.

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