anxious - Story 7617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer number of people in the room became overwhelming. He felt the sudden urge to retreat, to disappear into the shadows. He kept repeating the lines of his speech, but the words felt foreign, detached from him. He couldn't shake the sensation that he was about to make a complete fool of himself.

His mother noticed his fidgeting and gave him an encouraging smile, which only intensified the feeling. He felt a prickling sensation all over his skin; the slightest touch would be excruciating.

He closed his eyes briefly, mentally bracing himself. He should probably get this over with quickly. He felt like the next few minutes would be the longest of his life.

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