anxious - Story 7540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, unable to sleep. The email played on repeat in his mind: "incorrect recipient." The scholarship, his future, was gone. He felt a buzzing energy in his limbs, a restlessness that prevented him from settling. He flipped over, pulling the covers up to his chin, but the darkness offered no comfort.

He closed his eyes, trying to force his thoughts away, but his mind raced, replaying every mistake, every missed opportunity. His heart beat a frantic tattoo against his ribs. He felt like he was falling, plummeting into an unknown abyss, and there was nothing he could do to stop 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