anxious - Story 7250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, the bold headline screaming a silent accusation. A sense of unease settled in his bones, freezing him in place. His hands began to sweat. He reread the letter, searching for some loophole, some reassurance that wasn't there.

He tried to take a deep breath, but his lungs felt constricted. He felt as if he was drowning, the words of the letter a thick, suffocating liquid. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His head was spinning. He had to sit down.

He sank to the edge of his bed, his legs suddenly weak. The room seemed to tilt. The image of the document burned in his mind. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He didn't know how to do either.

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