anxious - Story 7208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy with an oppressive quiet that pressed down on Leo. He pushed open the door, expecting the comforting presence of his reliable sedan, and found only an empty patch of asphalt. His face went white. He knew he was late for an interview.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the rough stubble. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. The world seemed to tilt. Every sound, the distant rumble of a car, the chirping of a bird, amplified the pounding of his heart.

He felt a sudden urge to flee. He needed to get away from this reality, from the crushing weight of the unknown. He needed to find his car, but more importantly, he needed to find some semblance of control. His hands shook as he reached for his phone, the screen blurring before his eyes.

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