anxious - Story 7117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of switching to point guard, normally a position he admired, sent a jolt of alarm through Marcus. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous tic. He was used to the power forward position; the physicality, the rebounding. Point guard was different; the responsibility for the plays, the pressure to lead.

He felt the familiar churning in his stomach. The bright lights of the stadium seemed to grow brighter, the noise of the crowd, louder. He could feel his face burning with heat.

His breath quickened. He imagined the other players, their eyes watching him, waiting. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

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