anxious - Story 7279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door to the new office felt heavy, resistant. Sam paused before opening it, his breath coming in shallow gasps. He pressed his fingers against his temples, attempting to alleviate the pressure building there.

The new department was known for its demanding workload. He had been chosen for his skills and experience, but he felt like an imposter. He worried about failing, about letting everyone down.

He finally pushed the door open. The atmosphere was charged with a kind of frenetic energy that felt alien to him. The chatter was loud, the pace relentless. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

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