anxious - Story 7096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the TV screen, the images blurring into a meaningless stream. His hands were clasped in front of him, fingers intertwined so tightly that his knuckles were white. He was sitting on the sofa, his childhood sofa, and it felt like it was swallowing him whole.

His father, a silhouette against the doorway, cleared his throat. “Want to watch the game with me?”

He shook his head, unable to speak, the words stuck in his throat. Every muscle in his body felt tense. He felt the urge to stand, to pace, to do anything but remain still. He shifted, the springs of the sofa groaning in protest.

He focused on the texture of the fabric, trying to ground himself. He felt the need to apologize for everything.

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