anxious - Story 7518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. David stood on the sidelines, watching the scrimmage. He clenched and unclenched his fists. He kept thinking about the missed tackles, the fumbles.

Coach Williams had barely looked at him during the last practice. The other players avoided him. He couldn’t seem to concentrate on the game. He felt as if a cold hand had grasped his heart.

He felt the weight of impending doom. He imagined the coach's face. He knew the sentence. He wanted to scream.

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