anxious - Story 7234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the link shared on his Twitter feed. A cold shiver ran down his spine. He clicked the link, his mouse cursor trembling. His breath caught in his throat.

He started scrolling through the entries, his eyes darting back and forth. Each sentence was a fresh stab of vulnerability. He felt a deep, hollow ache in his chest.

He slammed his laptop shut. The sudden darkness was momentarily comforting. He leaned back in his chair, suddenly exhausted. He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off a headache.

His phone rang, his mother calling. He didn't answer. He couldn't.

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