anxious - Story 7257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his pulse quicken as he clicked the link. He'd been refreshing his inbox all morning, anticipation building with each passing minute. The page loaded. His work was there. But the credit… It was a name he didn't recognize, a name that felt like a punch to the gut.

He wanted to scream, to smash something, to… do anything to stop the suffocating weight pressing down on him. His throat constricted, and he felt a wave of heat wash over him, followed by a chilling cold. He rose abruptly, pushing away from his desk. He walked in tight circles around his office, his fingers twitching.

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