anxious - Story 7510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his phone, his fingers fumbling as he tried to unlock it. The sound of excited barking outside made him want to hide. The golden retriever, Charlie, was back.

He felt his throat constrict. He knew the conversation with the elderly owner would be difficult, filled with apologies and promises. He was always caught in this trap of politeness and false reassurances.

He closed his eyes, bracing himself. He knew he'd have to step outside and tell him to keep his dog inside. He didn't want to ruin the peace, but he couldn't take this anymore. He felt a sense of looming dread.

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