anxious - Story 7548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive. Liam paced back and forth across the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He’d just found his son, Ethan's, secret account, and the revelation was eating away at him.

He kept glancing at his phone, the screen still illuminated with the hidden posts. He felt his stomach twist, his chest constrict. He felt trapped, pinned down by a silent weight.

He stopped pacing, his gaze fixed on the wall. He wanted to scream, to lash out. He wanted to understand. He wanted everything to go back to how it was before. He didn't know how he could do any of that.

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