anxious - Story 7598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick and heavy. He sat at the table, surrounded by towering bookshelves. He tried to focus on his surroundings, but his mind refused to cooperate. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest, making it hard to breathe.

He opened the email, and the words blurred. He began to pace. He pulled at his hair. He could feel tears building behind his eyes. He hated this feeling.

He picked up a book at random, and tried to focus on the words, but they swam before him. He couldn't concentrate. He felt trapped in a vortex of his own making, a swirling storm of fear and doubt.

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