anxious - Story 7370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the card felt heavy in Arthur’s hand. He'd been expecting the usual bills, the usual worries, but this was different. He stared at the picture of a cartoon cat with wide eyes. His stomach twisted.

He brought it inside, placing it on the kitchen table, and then walked around the room, picking up a pen and paper. He felt the need to write something, anything, but didn't know what.

He tried to take a breath, but couldn't quite manage it. He went back to the card, and opened it. The blank space inside seemed to stare back at him. He felt a sudden, crushing loneliness.

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