anxious - Story 7634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight danced across the room, casting grotesque shadows on the walls. Liam sat hunched over the letter, his breath coming in shallow gasps. It was a letter to his deceased wife, detailing his fear of the future, a future without her.

He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his calloused fingers. The words swam before his eyes, blurring with unshed tears. The grief had returned with a vengeance. He had built a life, and now that life was crashing down around him.

He reread the words over and over, his throat constricting, the air suddenly thin and difficult to draw in. He wanted to scream.

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