anxious - Story 7141 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The file cabinet drawer stuck, the metal screeching against the worn runners. He yanked at it again, his knuckles white. The papers inside were a mess, a chaotic jumble reflecting the storm in his gut. Mr. Harding's office was supposed to be a sanctuary, a place of calm, of order. Now, it was empty, a hollow shell. No note, no forwarding address, just a curt email from the university HR department. He sank into Mr. Harding's leather chair, the leather strangely cold against his skin. His breath hitched in his chest as he ran a hand through his hair. Where was he supposed to go now?

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