anxious - Story 7349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise was relentless. The chatter, the haggling, the children's cries - a deafening symphony that threatened to overwhelm him. He clutched his hands, trying to ground himself, but the feeling of unease persisted. He needed to escape, to find a moment of peace.

Then, his gaze landed on a small, unassuming form. It was Barnaby, his childhood companion. A flood of forgotten memories surged through him, a mixture of joy and sorrow. The owner, a frail old man, was watching him intently.

"Take him," the old man croaked, his voice raspy. He couldn't refuse. Clutching the bear, he slipped away from the sale, seeking solitude. The bear was heavy, but his familiar shape somehow felt comforting.

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