anxious - Story 7599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold sweat broke out across his brow. He didn’t want to look. Not yet. He told himself it was just a rejection. He’d been rejected before. Why did this feel different? He leaned against the wall, his legs threatening to give way.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease in his gut. He knew what it would say. He knew the format of the rejection letter. He knew what he’d feel. But still, the temptation, the dread, was immense.

He glanced at the email. He inhaled deeply and started to read the words. It felt as though his heart had stopped beating. He looked around him, and he didn't recognize anything.

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