anxious - Story 7149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of cinnamon and old books in the library seemed to mock him. He picked at a stray thread on his sweater. Professor Ito was gone. Just gone. Poof. He sat in his usual reading nook, the comfort of the space now failing to soothe the internal turmoil that had taken hold. He felt suddenly alone, adrift. He replayed their last conversation, trying to find a misread nuance. But, their last interaction had been perfectly normal. He wanted to scream.

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