anxious - Story 7286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He flinched, then quickly looked around to make sure nobody saw him. The notification read: "David Chen has sent you a friend request." Richard recognized the name. David had made his life miserable in the fourth grade.

He felt a sudden need to check all the locks on his doors, even though he lived in a secure building. He stood and walked to the window, and stared out. The world seemed menacing, threatening.

His palms felt clammy, and a bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He felt a powerful urge to just go away, to get away from everything.

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