anxious - Story 7079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, heart racing. "Sunset_Surfer" wanted to meet at the beach tomorrow. He had no idea how to respond. He needed to get away, to be alone.

He started cleaning his room, his movements hurried. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over, as if trying to force his thoughts into order. He felt the blood pounding in his ears.

He went out for a walk, hoping the fresh air would calm him. He spent the entire walk trying to prepare himself, imagining every outcome. Each step was a struggle.

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