anxious - Story 7307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept fiddling with his tie, pulling it tighter then loosening it. The information had been leaked. A quick glance at the file showed the new guy, fresh out of college, was earning more than him. It felt like a punch to the gut.

He sat at his desk, staring blankly at his computer screen. The tasks before him seemed meaningless, the projects he was assigned a waste of time. He pushed himself back from his desk and stood up. He felt restless and agitated.

He needed to get out. He grabbed his keys, then walked out of the office, not bothering to tell anyone he was leaving. He walked fast, needing to escape the weight he felt.

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