anxious - Story 7584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with hushed anticipation. Liam tried to sit still, but his leg bounced involuntarily. He was surrounded by fans, a sea of faces eager for a show. He was in the VIP section, invited by a friend. The main act was a popular artist known for her covers. He found he didn't like the feeling in his stomach.

He was waiting, and dreading, a particular moment. He'd submitted his song to a songwriting contest. The winner was due to be announced. He had never expected to find himself here. Never thought his song would get this far.

And then, the artist began her set. The familiar opening chords sent a jolt through him. His breath caught in his throat. He leaned forward, every muscle tense. He listened with a strange combination of fascination and dread, the lyrics resonating with him, but the delivery…it was wrong, somehow.

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