anxious - Story 7129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I took a deep breath, trying to calm the frantic flutter in my chest. My friend’s birthday party was tonight. I had promised to be there. I felt a bead of sweat trickle down my spine. The fluorescent lights in the terminal seemed to pulse, amplifying my heightened state.

My gaze jumped from person to person. I imagined everyone else there, enjoying themselves. I imagined the disappointment on his face. I could feel the blood pounding in my ears.

I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to find a place of calm, but the turmoil inside me wouldn't quiet. The seconds ticked by, each one a hammer blow.

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