anxious - Story 7099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact with his father at the breakfast table. The clinking of silverware, the murmur of the morning news – every sound grated on his nerves. He felt a persistent tightness in his chest, a feeling he couldn’t seem to shake.

His father's gaze lingered on him, a silent, unspoken question hanging in the air. He felt the need to explain, to justify, to apologize for his very existence. He picked at his toast, barely tasting it.

"You look tired," his father said, finally breaking the silence. The words, meant kindly, felt like an accusation. He took a sip of his coffee, his hand trembling slightly. He couldn't meet his father's eye.

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