anxious - Story 7413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his tiny apartment, the linoleum floor cold under his bare feet. The bills, stacked neatly in the wallet he’d found by the bus stop, seemed to glare at him. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end.

The silence of his apartment felt oppressive. He replayed the moment he found it over and over in his mind. Should he go to the police? Keep it? The possibilities swirled within him, a chaotic maelstrom.

He couldn't sit still. He felt a constant tremor in his hands. Every creak of the building, every distant siren, sent a jolt of alarm through him. He checked the window repeatedly, fearing a knock.

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