anxious - Story 7363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is odd," Mark mumbled, his voice tight. He ran a hand through his hair, the bristles scraping against his scalp. The card, with its pastel-colored cake on the front, felt oddly out of place amongst the bills and junk mail.

He propped it up against the coffee maker, the only spot with good lighting. He squinted at the envelope, searching for a clue, any indication of sender. Nothing. His breathing grew shallow, and his heart pounded against his chest.

He couldn't shake the feeling of unease. He ran his fingertip over the glossy surface, tracing the outline of the icing. A sense of wrongness settled over him. He felt the sudden urge to hide, to disappear.

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