anxious - Story 7179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t quite focus on the words coming out of his friend, Emily’s, mouth. He fiddled with the straw in his drink, bending it almost into a pretzel. He’d always believed Emily’s tales of her jet-setting lifestyle as a travel blogger. The exotic locations, the five-star hotels… now, the photograph his sister had sent, a picture of Emily working at a local bus depot, seemed to mock him. A tingling sensation ran up his spine.

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