anxious - Story 7298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“There’s been a change of plans,” the voice on the phone crackled, the words slicing through the air like shards of glass. He stared at the receiver, unable to move. A cold wave swept over him, leaving him chilled to the bone. He felt the blood draining from his face. His carefully crafted persona started to crumble.

He stood up, pacing the room, his movements jerky and disjointed. His mind raced, replaying every detail, searching for an explanation. The decorations, the cake, the invitations – all reminders of a future that had vanished. He closed his eyes, fighting back a wave of nausea. He needed to be alone.

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