anxious - Story 7284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of his phone vibrating made Leo jump. He quickly checked the screen, his breath catching in his throat. It was a notification from Facebook: "Chad Miller wants to be your friend." He was the bully from middle school.

His hand trembled slightly as he set the phone down, trying to appear calm. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to clean his apartment, as though tidiness could somehow ward off the threat.

Memories flickered across his mind. The way Chad would laugh when he tripped. The way he would shove him in the hallways. He felt a familiar urge to hide, to disappear.

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