anxious - Story 7328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick, unbreathable. Chef Jian wiped sweat from his brow, his movements frantic. He barked orders at his staff, his voice sharp, cutting. He tasted the sauce repeatedly, his face contorted in a grimace. He found himself arguing with the baker, the vegetable supplier, anyone who crossed his path. He felt like he was standing on the edge of a precipice, and one wrong move would send him plummeting down.

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