anxious - Story 7415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You alright, mate?” the bartender asked, wiping down the counter. He'd been staring at the wallet for ten minutes, barely touching his pint. The bar, usually a haven, now felt like a spotlight.

“Fine,” he mumbled, his voice tight. He’d found the wallet on the curb outside, overflowing with cash. He didn't know what to do, what he should do, or what he *could* do.

His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a strange tingling in his legs, like he wanted to run. The music seemed too loud, the chatter of the other patrons too intrusive. He needed to get out, to think.

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