anxious - Story 7277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, familiar scent of the warehouse was gone, replaced by the perfume of the new office. Mark hated it. He ran his hand over his face, trying to scrub away the feeling of being disoriented.

He had always worked in the warehouse, comfortable amongst the machinery and the rhythmic rumble of conveyor belts. He knew the job, the routine. He was excellent at it. Now, he was in a completely new environment. He felt a deep sense of unease settle over him.

He was told he had the skills for the project management role, but sitting at the new computer, with all the new software, felt impossible. The blinking cursor taunted him. He wanted to go back.

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