anxious - Story 7466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate music box, with its tinkling melody, seemed to be mocking him. Arthur knew he had to be brave, supportive. His brother needed the money. But the thought of parting with his mother's prized possession caused his stomach to churn. He couldn't help but feel a mounting sense of dread.

He stood by the mantelpiece, his gaze fixed on the intricate carvings. He clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to find some semblance of calm. The silence of the house pressed in on him, amplifying his unease.

He felt as though the world was closing in, and the walls were closing with it.

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