anxious - Story 7155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. I nearly jumped out of my skin. My hand trembled as I answered, my voice barely a whisper. “Hello?” I was certain it was the job offer, or the rejection.

On the other end, it was my Aunt Carol. She wanted to know if I'd seen the new cat video she'd sent me. I forced a laugh, my chest still tight. The call ended, and I slumped back into my chair. Still nothing from the company.

Later that evening, I pictured Ben and I celebrating. The thought of it, or the opposite, hung heavy in the air.

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