anxious - Story 7444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway was filled with the usual buzz of chatter and music, but for Daniel, it was muted, distant. He knew his roommate, Mark, was out for a late-night study session. He’d waited, pacing in the common area, until he was sure.

He unlocked the door. His heart hammered against his ribs. The journal lay on his desk, open, the last entry visible. His stomach twisted into a painful knot.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish. Daniel quickly closed the journal and shoved it under his mattress. He then proceeded to gather his things, the simple act of moving about helping to steady himself.

He’d have to feign ignorance. He didn’t want a confrontation.

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