anxious - Story 7094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just put your things in the guest room for now," his mother said, gesturing vaguely. He nodded, but his hand tightened on the handle of his suitcase. He didn't want the guest room, he didn't want to unpack, he wanted to be anywhere else.

The house was too clean, too orderly, a stark contrast to the chaos of his life. He felt the weight of every object he encountered, a suffocating awareness of things he wasn't able to control. It was the same feeling that followed him around for the last few months. His breath hitched in his chest as he walked down the hall, each step feeling heavy and deliberate.

The guest room, also neat, offered no solace. He set the suitcase down with a thud, the sound echoing in the silent space. His eyes darted around, searching for a place to sit, to hide, to disappear.

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