anxious - Story 7513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room, normally a sanctuary, felt like a cage. Liam stared at the barbell, unable to bring himself to lift it. His hands trembled. Coach Henderson had been avoiding his gaze all morning, a sure sign that something was off.

He felt a strange tightening in his chest. He kept thinking about the mistakes he made in the last game. He imagined the coach's words, the polite dismissal. The thought sent a jolt of ice through his veins.

He looked at the empty bench. He wanted to be good enough. He wanted to be a part of the team. Each breath was shallow. He closed 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