anxious - Story 7508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The distinct aroma of wet dog permeated the air. He knew. His shoulders hunched. The husky, Luna, had escaped again. This time it was likely into his vegetable patch.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. He hated conflict. He hated confrontation. He always ended up feeling as though he was the one in the wrong.

He felt the familiar prickle of tears in his eyes. He hated the idea of disappointing his wife by not saying anything, he hated the idea of doing nothing and seeing his garden destroyed.

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