anxious - Story 7365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing David noticed was the bright yellow envelope. It practically screamed at him from the mailbox. He’d barely slept last night and the sudden burst of color caused his vision to blur, his head starting to ache.

Back inside, he set the mail on the counter, the bright yellow card facing up. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His hands were clammy, and he wiped them on his jeans.

He didn't know anyone who would send a birthday card. He didn't have any friends, had kept to himself for years. He took a deep breath, fighting to regain his composure. He picked up the card, the paper thin in his grasp, and slowly 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