anxious - Story 7472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the delivery slip clutched in his sweaty palm. It was addressed to "Mr. Silas Blackwood." Silas hadn't lived here in years, but sometimes, old mail slipped through. His breath hitched in his throat as he thought about it. The mailman was already halfway down the street.

He debated whether or not he should even open the door. The floorboards creaked under his weight as he slowly moved forward. His stomach churned as he reached for the door handle.

He quickly grabbed the package, slamming the door. The box felt heavy, ominous, in his hands. He ran his thumb across the label. It was a thick, brown envelope. His hands shook as he tore it open, expecting some kind of letter.

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