anxious - Story 7453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is… unexpected," David muttered, his voice a low rasp. The words felt inadequate, hollow. He’d always felt a certain distance from his family, a sense that he didn’t quite fit, but this… this confirmed a suspicion he'd kept locked away.

He stared at the computer screen, the words blurring before his eyes. He got up from his chair. The blood was singing in his ears, and he couldn’t seem to stand still. He walked over to the window and stared at the park outside. The trees seemed to sway, and the world seemed unreal. He scrubbed his hands over his face, trying to clear his head, but it was to no avail.

He should call his parents. He should call someone. He needed to do something, anything. But what?

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