anxious - Story 7184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of laughter drifted from the bedroom, and Mark’s chest constricted. He stood frozen in the hallway, the half-empty glass of water in his hand forgotten. The sound wasn’t familiar. It wasn’t the lighthearted giggle of his wife, Emily. The knot in his stomach tightened with each syllable. He gripped the glass so hard he thought he might shatter it. He needed to know, to understand, *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