anxious - Story 7112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the whiteboard, a pit forming in his stomach. "Center forward, Liam," the coach had announced. His usual position as a defender was all he'd ever known. He felt the blood drain from his face as he scanned the other players. He was surrounded by stars; he felt utterly unprepared.

He clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to release the tension that seized his muscles. His palms were slick with sweat. The familiar weight of the goalie gloves felt comforting. This was not comforting.

His breath hitched as he imagined his first touch, his first pass, his first shot. The thought of potentially messing up in front of the crowd made him want to melt into the ground. He had a sudden urge to just run away and hide.

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