anxious - Story 7236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a knot tighten in his gut when he saw the post. He felt a heavy weight pressing down on his shoulders. He felt hot, his face stinging. He glanced around the bus, feeling exposed, like everyone was staring at him.

He wished he could rewind time, erase the words, make it all disappear. He tried to take deep breaths but his chest was tight.

He pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes, trying to block out the world. The bus lurched to a stop and he quickly jumped out. He needed air, needed space.

He started walking, head down, not sure where he was going. He just needed to get away.

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