anxious - Story 7630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Followed you." The simple words, written in green on her LinkedIn profile, caused a physical reaction in Ethan. His science teacher, Dr. Lee, had connected with him. He felt like his head was spinning.

He sat rigidly at his desk, his hands clammy. He’d been using LinkedIn to look for internships, but now it felt like a minefield. His every move was watched.

He considered deleting his profile, but that felt like admitting defeat. He felt a constriction in his throat. He felt like he needed to hide, to become invisible. He just felt sick.

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