anxious - Story 7637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old farmhouse creaked and groaned around Henry as he sat at the kitchen table. He stared at the letter, its contents a bitter reminder of the choices he'd made. It was to his first love, the girl he left behind.

He pushed his chair back, the legs scraping against the worn floorboards. A knot of unease tightened in his chest. His heart beat an erratic rhythm against his ribs. The world narrowed, focusing on the letter, and the mistakes it represented.

He stood and walked towards the back door and stared at the dark field, his breath coming in shallow, quick bursts. He felt trapped. He needed to be anywhere but here.

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