anxious - Story 7076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the message, a chill running down his spine. "Meet you at the park tomorrow?" asked "The_Poet". The park! He felt his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. He wanted to scream.

He began running scenarios in his head. What if he wasn't as interesting in person? What if they were nothing alike? He went back and reread their previous chats, desperately trying to glean a sense of what to expect.

He spent the evening pacing around his apartment. He was unable to eat dinner. He couldn’t focus on anything. Sleep felt impossible, the potential meeting a physical weight.

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