anxious - Story 7378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure about this, Liam?” his wife had asked, her voice tight. The new house, a Victorian with a long history, was giving him the jitters. Even now, he felt as if something was constantly creeping up on him from behind.

He hated the silence. He hated the way the floorboards creaked. He started to explore the house, trying to find some sense of familiarity, or at least a distraction. In the dining room, behind a large mirror, he noticed a section of the wall that seemed slightly askew. He reached out and pushed.

The mirror, surprisingly light, swung inward on hidden hinges, revealing a dark, narrow passage. A cold gust of air rushed out, sending shivers down his spine. He stepped back, his breath catching in his throat.

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