anxious - Story 7077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message, “Coffee shop at 2?” from "Pixelated_Dreams", had been a shock. He had, for months, built an online friendship, sharing everything with this digital persona. Now, it was time to meet. He felt his face flush.

He cleaned his apartment with frenetic energy. Each swipe of the cloth was an attempt to regain control. His movements were jerky, as if his body couldn’t keep pace with the swirling thoughts in his mind.

He dressed and re-dressed, each outfit failing to feel right. He was late, but the idea of going through with the meeting filled him with such a rush of pressure.

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