anxious - Story 7546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the details of the secret account blurring before his eyes. His jaw was clenched, the muscles tight. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. This wasn't his son, not the quiet, thoughtful boy he knew.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe. He felt a wave of nausea, a sudden, powerful urge to retreat, to hide. The implications of this hidden life washed over him, leaving him feeling utterly adrift.

He closed his eyes for a moment, wishing he could erase the memory, the discovery, everything. When he opened them again, he knew he couldn’t ignore 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