anxious - Story 7316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, I’m home!” Mark called, attempting a jovial tone. He closed the door. But the usual aroma of dinner wasn't there. Instead, the air carried a faint hint of… something different. He heard a rustling sound from the kitchen, and then a voice. It was Claire, but not speaking in English.

He crept towards the doorway, his steps slow and deliberate. The language was Japanese, a language he associated with a past relationship, a past he'd buried. He watched her practice. He felt a coldness creep into his limbs.

Mark cleared his throat, trying for a casual air. Claire jumped, dropping her chopsticks. The color drained from her face.

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