anxious - Story 7430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the invitation, the printed words swimming before his eyes. His jaw clenched. He felt a familiar flutter in his chest, a sensation he hadn't experienced in years.

He got up from his chair, a sudden burst of restless energy compelling him to action. He began to organize his desk, a task normally left for another day. It was as if he was searching for control, a way to channel the rising tide of unease.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid rhythm of his heart. He knew, deep down, that going was unavoidable. The idea of the reunion was a storm brewing within 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