anxious - Story 7387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped gallery space felt oppressively hot. Michael found himself sweating profusely, though the air conditioning was blasting. He was supposed to be enjoying the art, but his gaze kept drifting towards the corner where Liam, his supposed date, was chatting intently with a woman. A woman wearing the necklace Michael had given Liam for their anniversary.

Liam's face was animated, his eyes sparkling, a look Michael had thought reserved for him. He felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his chest, a sensation that stole his breath. He had to know. He started to walk toward them, his steps slow and hesitant, his heart pounding in his chest.

His throat felt tight, and his mouth was dry. He could barely breathe. The world seemed to be closing in on him.

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