anxious - Story 7338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed Liam. But now, as he entered La Boulangerie, it seemed to intensify the feeling in his gut. He noticed the sign, "Closing Soon."

He stood frozen in the doorway. He went there to unwind, the warm smell a hug after a long day. It felt like a small bit of magic was about to be removed from his life.

Liam ran his hand through his hair. He wanted to scream. He forced himself to walk to the counter, knowing that it wouldn’t matter. It was happening anyway.

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