anxious - Story 7615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterer's clatter of dishes felt like a violent drumroll, each crash a blow to his composure. He tried to focus on his breathing, counting each inhale and exhale, but the numbers kept getting lost. His stomach churned, a knot of unease twisting tighter with each passing moment.

"Everything alright, dear?" His grandmother, her face crinkled with concern, touched his arm. He forced a smile, hoping it didn't look as brittle as he felt.

He needed to get through this, for his parents. The thought, while comforting, did not alleviate the strange sensations he felt. The thought of the speech was like a dark cloud hovering.

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