anxious - Story 7506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the lock on the gate again, a pointless action. He knew, he just knew, the Labrador was loose. He was already prepared to see the damage. His pulse quickened.

He glanced through the blinds. There it was. The Labrador, bounding through his newly seeded lawn, completely oblivious. He clenched his fists, struggling to keep his hands from shaking.

He wanted to scream. He was tired of this. He didn't want a fight, but he didn't want to deal with it either. He wasn't equipped for 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