anxious - Story 7330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He poured himself a generous measure of whiskey, the amber liquid sloshing over the rim of the glass. He knocked it back in one gulp, the alcohol burning a brief path down his throat. He poured another, and another, the numbness slowly creeping in. He went into his office and stared at the wall. The review was playing in his head like a broken record. He ran his hand through his hair, then punched the wall, a sudden burst of rage that left his knuckles stinging.

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