anxious - Story 7576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This has to be the place," Marco murmured, pushing open the heavy wooden door of the old bookstore. The air inside smelled of aging paper and forgotten stories. He’d come here, hoping to find a fragment of his past. He wandered through the aisles, his breath shallow. Suddenly, he saw Sophia, browsing the shelves. His pulse quickened. He hadn't seen her in fifteen years, but the way she moved... the way she turned a book in her hands... he would know her anywhere.

He took a step towards her, his throat drying. He hadn’t rehearsed this. He didn’t know what to do. His palms began to sweat. He approached, the space between them shrinking. “Sophia?” he ventured, his voice a strained whisper.

She looked up, her expression puzzled. He felt a tremor run through him. “I’m sorry, do I know you?” she asked, a small frown appearing on her brow. He wanted to turn and run.

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