anxious - Story 7368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around him as he checked the mailbox. The card, with its glittery design and the word 'Happy Birthday' emblazoned on the front, seemed to taunt him. He clutched it, his knuckles white.

His apartment felt suffocating when he got back inside. He slammed the door shut, then leaned against it, his chest heaving. The card remained clutched in his hand.

He knew nobody in the area. His phone was dead. There was no one he could call. He swallowed hard, a knot forming in his throat. He turned over the card, searching for a return address, a clue, anything. Nothing. His mind raced, replaying scenarios.

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