anxious - Story 7570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti cannons, the champagne fountain, the celebrity DJ - it was all too much. Brian had planned a simple gathering at his house, a potluck dinner with close friends. But now, with the news about Chris's lavish event, he felt a sudden sense of doom.

He kept opening and closing the fridge, looking for something, anything, to distract him. He found himself picking at the food in the fridge, even though he wasn't hungry. The thought of his friends comparing the two parties was a heavy weight on his shoulders.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging gently. He went to the window and stared outside, watching the world go by, feeling completely disconnected from 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