anxious - Story 7357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a tomb. Cold, dark, suffocating. He’d promised himself he’d be brave. He gripped the flashlight with white knuckles, his arm trembling slightly. What if he found something… disturbing?

He had to get this done. The previous owners had left a mountain of junk. He just wanted to get it over with, but his heart was pounding in his chest.

He discovered a box filled with old newspaper clippings, all detailing a local tragedy. He dropped the box, a gasp escaping his lips. He immediately turned around.

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