anxious - Story 7210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been up all night, wrestling with a project, his mind racing. Coming outside, he expected a smooth, easy commute to the office. Instead, the void left by his missing truck mocked his exhaustion. His jaw tightened.

He glanced around, trying to comprehend the situation. His body felt heavy, his legs unsteady. The world seemed to close in around him. He felt pinned down, paralyzed by the sudden development.

His palms began to sweat. He pictured the consequences: missed deadlines, difficult conversations, and the crushing weight of his responsibilities. He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, trying to gather himself, to find some semblance of calm in the face of this unexpected problem.

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