anxious - Story 7446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of spilled coffee hung in the air, a familiar aroma that now felt tainted. Michael stood frozen in the doorway, the world blurring at the edges. His roommate, Kevin, was sprawled on his bed, earbuds in, a book open in front of him. Michael’s journal.

His hand clenched into a fist. He took a shaky step back.

His journal wasn't simply open, but marked by an eraser. Michael felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t want to exist.

He needed to get out, he needed air, even if it meant risking a collision with Kevin. He turned and fled, nearly tripping over a discarded shoe.

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