anxious - Story 7559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. Liam wanted a parrot. The thought made him feel slightly unwell, like he might throw up. The apartment was his sanctuary, his quiet place, and the thought of a loud bird squawking, shitting, and generally being unpredictable was the stuff of nightmares.

He envisioned the feathers, the constant noise, the mess. He savored the silence, the orderly appearance of the living room, the way everything was in its place. The thought of a pet bird was a threat.

He was sweating, his heart beat hard and fast, and he couldn't stop the feeling that something bad was about to happen. He wanted to run, to flee from this conversation.

"Are you sure about this?" he mumbled, his throat tight. He needed to escape.

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