anxious - Story 7326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection. His face was pale, his eyes wide. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging strands, as if trying to physically remove the review from his mind. He found himself unable to eat. The thought of consuming anything, of putting food in his mouth, was revolting. He walked to the window and stared at the street, oblivious to the passing cars, the bustling people. The world felt distant, muted.

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