anxious - Story 7618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin, the faces blurring into a sea of judgment. He felt a cold sweat break out on his skin, despite the cool air. The weight of expectations pressed down on him, a heavy, suffocating blanket.

He tried to force down the lump in his throat, but it wouldn't budge. He felt his heart racing, as if he'd just run a marathon. He glanced over at his father, who was watching him with pride. He felt a pang of guilt; he didn't want to disappoint him.

He wished he could fast forward through the next five minutes, skip straight to the end. The podium loomed, a symbol of his impending ordeal.

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