anxious - Story 7220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old house pressed down on him. John was back in the place where he and his friend were supposed to have faced a terrifying event. The memory had been haunting him. The memory had been torturing him. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest.

He was sitting. The old house was eerily silent. He remembered the darkness, the sounds, the feeling of being watched. He remembered the fear. His friend was about to arrive.

His friend appeared, cheerful and lighthearted. He brought the conversation up. "Do you remember it?" John asked. "The house?" His friend's response was a shrug. He didn't seem to recognize the place at all.

John felt the blood drain from his face. His friend saw it as a place of childhood fun. John saw a place of horror. The differences were enormous. John felt a great need to escape.

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