anxious - Story 7313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Daniel’s hand. He was usually the first one up, enjoying the quiet before Chloe awoke. But this morning, as he crept downstairs, he heard her voice, low and musical, a language he recognized as Romanian. The words were unfamiliar, but the tone, the cadence… it was undeniably her.

He dropped the cup with a loud clatter. Coffee splashed across the tiles. He stood there, frozen, the world tilting slightly.

Chloe appeared at the top of the stairs, her eyes wide, a notepad clutched in her hand. “Daniel! What… what happened?” Her voice lacked its usual warmth.

He mumbled something about clumsy fingers, but he couldn't meet her gaze. His throat felt tight, constricted.

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