anxious - Story 7464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a chair, Liam," his father had said, his voice level and steady. But it wasn't just a chair. It was his grandfather's, a sturdy, worn armchair, the place where he had spent countless hours listening to stories. Now, it was up for sale. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to escape the impending doom.

He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white. He couldn’t seem to swallow. The house felt too small, the air thick and suffocating.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to beg. He just wanted it to stop.

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