anxious - Story 7569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little details that were getting to him. Jason was going all out, hosting a huge party. Alex had settled on a quiet board game night. Each time he thought about Jason's party, he felt the need to fidget.

He kept adjusting his glasses, running a hand through his hair. He knew he should be preparing for the night, but he was stuck in a mental loop. He couldn't seem to focus.

He imagined the empty chairs, the leftover snacks, the faces of his friends as they inevitably chose Jason's party over his. He felt an intense heat in his chest. He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.

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