anxious - Story 7224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped apartment felt even more confining than usual. Liam sat hunched on the floor, surrounded by piles of paper. He felt like he couldn’t breathe. His mother, bless her heart, had preserved everything.

He had started with the elementary school projects, a small gesture. Hours later, he was still there, the weight of each assignment pressing down on him. A dizzying feeling washed over him.

He pushed the box away, then quickly changed his mind. He needed to finish this, he really needed to finish this. He reached for another folder.

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