anxious - Story 7628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in the form of a direct message: “Your computer science teacher, Mr. Jones, now follows you on Reddit.” Max's jaw clenched. He felt a coldness spread through him. He had a few...opinions on Reddit.

He paced his room, his footsteps heavy on the wooden floor. He’d been very critical about his class lately. He felt a jolt of alarm. His grades depended on Mr. Jones.

He imagined the awkwardness of the next class, the potential for judgment. He felt the need to apologize, to explain, to somehow undo this entire situation. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

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