anxious - Story 7232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the laptop. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. The headline blared, "Liam's Secret Thoughts Exposed!" He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut until white spots danced behind his eyelids.

He imagined his classmates reading the entries. He envisioned their reactions, the whispers, the laughter. His stomach churned. He felt a wave of nausea, like he was about to be sick.

His phone buzzed. He ignored it. It buzzed again. And again. The sound was an unwelcome intrusion, a constant reminder of the digital storm brewing. He picked up the mug of cold coffee, suddenly needing the weight in his hand, and stared at the screen.

He didn't want to know what it said, but he knew he'd have to look. He slowly opened the webpage.

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