anxious - Story 7222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the box tucked away in the back of the linen closet. A knot formed in Leo's stomach as he lifted the lid. He hadn’t been home in years. The house felt smaller, the familiar scent of lemon cleaner now tinged with the musty odor of age.

He reached inside, his fingers brushing against faded manila folders. Each one seemed to whisper a silent judgement. He didn’t want to look. He needed to get the paperwork done. He needed to leave.

A tremor went through his hands. He forced himself to pull out the first folder. It was a crayon drawing of a smiling sun. A lump formed in his throat.

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