anxious - Story 7324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you alright, Chef?" The sous chef's voice startled him. Chef Ramirez jumped, nearly dropping the heavy pan. He forced a smile, a brittle facade. He tried to focus on the task at hand, the simmering sauce, but the critic's words echoed in his mind. He couldn't remember the last time he felt such a feeling. He felt a need to do everything perfectly, to prove them wrong. He doubled-checked every measurement, the tiniest of details now seeming critical. His movements were jerky, his focus scattered.

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