anxious - Story 7426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the paper trembling slightly in his grasp. A coldness spread through him, and he instinctively wrapped his arms around himself. He felt a tremor in his hand.

He reread the details. The venue, the date, the guest list. He knew he should RSVP, but his feet felt rooted to the floor. The idea of seeing them all, of being on display, made his stomach churn.

He retreated to the sofa, pulling a blanket around himself as if it could ward off the invisible threat. The silence of the house amplified the beat of his heart. It felt like a trap.

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