anxious - Story 7340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't read the note. He saw the empty storefront, the bare windows of Mario's. The familiar, comfortable feeling in his chest began to ache.

Mario’s was the place where he took his children, where they laughed. It was a part of his life, a part of their lives. Now it was gone.

He felt the familiar knot in his throat begin to tighten. He struggled to breathe. He wanted to run, to go back in time, to somehow make this not true. He felt a sudden, deep emptiness.

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