anxious - Story 7606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the images, the silence of the library almost oppressive. James had always been fascinated by his ancestor, a pioneer who supposedly forged a path through the wilderness. These old photos showed a different story.

One particular picture, of his ancestor being helped by a group of Native Americans, went against everything he'd been told. His fingers drummed a rapid beat against the table. Every muscle in his body felt tense.

He wanted to shout. He needed to scream. He wanted to undo the past. He picked up the photo and stared at it again. How could he possibly reconcile this with the stories? He couldn’t. He didn’t want to.

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