anxious - Story 7158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was thick with unspoken tension. I sat opposite Chloe, our shared goal, the coveted position, a silent wedge between us. The interviewer's questions felt like a test, each answer a potential weakness.

I kept fidgeting, unable to stay still. My mind raced, jumping between scenarios, each one more catastrophic than the last. Chloe, on the other hand, appeared calm, composed, delivering her answers with a practiced ease.

I stumbled over my own words. This felt like I was unraveling.

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