anxious - Story 7329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a coldness creeping up my spine as I read the review. It was as if ice water had been poured down my back. My breath shortened, my fingers growing numb as I scrolled through the scathing criticisms. I wanted to scream, to lash out, to deny the truth of it all. I buried my face in my hands, trying to muffle the sounds of my own frustration. I needed to move, I needed to do something, anything, to distract myself from this awful feeling, this feeling of sinking.

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