anxious - Story 7280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar route through the building felt different today. It was a journey into the unknown. The elevator doors opened onto a world he didn't recognize. He adjusted his tie, even though he knew it was straight.

He stood outside the new office, a knot forming in his stomach. He didn’t know anyone there. He didn’t understand the new tasks assigned to him. He took a deep breath, steeling himself.

The office door opened, and a woman called out, "You must be new. Come in!" He walked slowly, his feet heavy, his senses heightened. He knew nothing was going to be the same anymore.

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