anxious - Story 7245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse's voice was bright, chirpy even, as she explained the situation. "Just a small mix-up, nothing to worry about!" The words felt like sandpaper against his already frayed nerves. He attempted a smile, but it felt stiff, unnatural. His hands wouldn’t stop shaking.

He sat on the examining table, feeling exposed, vulnerable. Every medical instrument, every beeping machine in the room, seemed to glare at him. What was in those files that didn't belong to him? What had they seen? What had they recorded?

He took a few deep breaths, trying to find some semblance of calm. The room spun slightly. He closed his eyes. He wished he could go back to the moment before he'd received the phone call. Back to the time when nothing was wrong. He gripped the edge of the table so hard his nails dug into the metal.

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