anxious - Story 7069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the rejection email a stark black and white intrusion on his peaceful morning. He felt a strange tightening in his chest, a sensation that made it difficult to breathe. The world seemed to shrink around him.

He slammed the laptop shut. The sound echoed through the quiet house. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to move, to get away from the source of his distress. He started to pace, his steps erratic.

He found himself running his hands through his hair, tugging at the strands. The future, once so clear, now felt like a vast, uncharted ocean. He felt a pressing need to control something, anything.

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