anxious - Story 7060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of old metal and forgotten things filled his nostrils, making him want to cough. He felt a wave of nausea. He took a step back, but then forced himself forward again. He couldn't give in to the way his body was reacting.

He pulled at his collar, desperate for air. He could feel the blood rushing in his ears. He wasn't sure he could do this. He didn't want to fail. The very idea of it was making it worse.

He glanced at the ring in the photo, the image burnt into his memory. He took a deep, shuddering breath, and focused on the task at hand. He had to.

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