anxious - Story 7238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, my God,” Ben whispered, his voice cracking. He stared at the screen, paralyzed. His hands were clammy, and he felt a pressure behind his eyes, as though he might cry.

He reread the entries, each word a cruel reminder of his past. The memories swirled, vivid and unwelcome. His throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. He felt a deep sense of shame.

He spun around in his chair, wanting to flee. He grabbed his coat and keys, suddenly desperate to escape the confines of his apartment.

He didn’t know where he was going, but he knew he couldn’t stay.

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