anxious - Story 7563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure about this, Ethan?" Clara asked, her voice laced with concern. Ethan was meticulously arranging the fairy lights on his tree. He was making sure the light from them would be bright enough, but not too bright. He didn’t meet her eyes.

He'd planned a small gathering at his apartment, a game night with pizza and board games. Sarah's all-day festival, featuring a DJ and multiple food trucks, loomed over him. The thought of competing for attention made his shoulders stiffen.

He mumbled, "Yeah, of course." He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs. He imagined the silent room, the empty pizza boxes, the inevitable comparisons. He kept adjusting the lights, obsessively checking the patterns.

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