anxious - Story 7450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Leo’s chest made breathing feel like a chore. He walked into the dorm, every muscle in his body rigid. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken tension. His roommate, Sam, was in his usual spot, sprawled on his bed, but his eyes were fixed on the shared desk.

Leo’s journal was lying there, open to a page. Leo felt a wave of nausea rise, his vision beginning to blur at the edges.

“Did you…?” Leo started, his voice barely a whisper. He couldn't finish the question.

Sam looked up, his expression unreadable, and Leo already knew the answer.

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