anxious - Story 7118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Right wing, David." The hockey coach's words echoed in the frigid arena. David had always been a defenseman, a protector. Now, he'd be expected to score. The thought sent a cold shiver down his spine.

He checked the laces of his skates repeatedly, his hands fumbling with the familiar task. His vision swam as he looked at the open ice. This new role demanded a different skillset. He could feel a rising panic bubbling inside him.

His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat echoing the rush of the blades on the ice. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat.

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