anxious - Story 7187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, silver phone. It lay on the bedside table, innocent and silent. But the memory of the hushed conversation, the abrupt ending, swirled in Ethan's head. His leg bounced, a frantic, restless energy. He got up from the couch and started walking. Back and forth. He went to the kitchen. Then the hall. The need to occupy his body, to distract himself, was almost a physical ache. The silence in the house was a deafening weight.

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