anxious - Story 7359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he shouldn't be here. He really should have just hired a professional to sort through the clutter. He just wanted to know what was in the attic. His hands were shaking slightly as he pulled the string to turn on the light.

The light flickered to life. The attic was exactly as he'd imagined, messy and dark. His stomach was twisting into knots. He slowly walked forward.

In a corner, he found a collection of porcelain dolls, their faces unnervingly pristine, their eyes following his every move. He quickly turned around and fled.

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