anxious - Story 7352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it plastered to his forehead with sweat, even though the attic felt cool. The ladder swayed slightly as he climbed. He really shouldn't have agreed to this. The previous owners had been...eccentric. He'd get this over with, catalog the stuff, and get out.

The attic was crammed. Boxes piled on boxes, furniture draped in dusty cloths. Each item felt like a potential problem. His stomach churned. A musty smell assaulted his nostrils.

He found a small, locked chest tucked away in a corner. His fingers trembled as he fumbled with a rusty key. What if something was in there? Something he shouldn't see? He held his breath and opened it.

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