anxious - Story 7318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt heavy with unspoken things. Finn had been distracted all week, his mind clearly somewhere else. He had been unusually quiet and spent most of his time in his study. Tonight, however, the silence was broken. Finn, walking in, heard a rhythmic cadence, a flow of words. It was Icelandic.

He leaned against the doorway, unsure how to proceed. He could see his partner, Liam, in the study, his brow furrowed in concentration, a book open on the desk.

Finn stood there, his fists clenched, fighting down a wave of nausea.

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