anxious - Story 7498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Jake's hand. The rejection email from the venture capitalist had just come. His amazing VR entertainment system was a non-starter. He'd seen it coming. Someone else owned the rights. His chest felt constricted, a tight band preventing him from taking a full breath.

He tossed the phone onto the coffee table with a thud. It bounced. He got up and moved from the couch to the window, watching the pedestrians. He felt a desperate urge to run away. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes.

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