anxious - Story 7608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was spinning. Thomas swallowed hard, his mouth suddenly dry. His uncle, the family black sheep, a man always vilified by the family, was depicted in the photos as a caring, friendly man.

He saw the photos of his uncle, interacting with family, holding children, laughing, and his gut twisted. Thomas always believed the family narrative. He felt suddenly disoriented, as if walking on sand. The feeling of wrongness was overwhelming.

He wanted to scream. He leaned against the wall, his legs weak. He considered discarding the album, pretending he hadn't seen a thing.

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