anxious - Story 7400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was too quiet, and the silence seemed to amplify the anxieties that had been plaguing him for weeks. He was avoiding his friends, the world in general, and the weight of it all was crushing. He'd hoped the quiet of the library would ease the tightness in his chest, but the hushed atmosphere only seemed to amplify the discomfort.

He found a copy of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and a folded piece of paper fell out. His heart skipped a beat. It was a letter, penned in a language he didn't understand.

He gripped the letter so tightly, the paper threatened to tear. His breath came in shallow gasps. The library, which should have been a safe haven, now felt like a cage, and the letter seemed to be its most unwelcome prisoner. He couldn't shake the feeling of being exposed, vulnerable, and completely unprepared for what might come.

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