anxious - Story 7639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The museum felt immense, the echoes of footsteps unnerving. Michael stood before a display case, the letter pressed against his chest. It was a letter to his estranged son, detailing his regret and hope for reconciliation.

His palms were slick with sweat. He felt as though the air had been sucked from the room. He struggled to breathe, his chest growing tight. The sterile environment amplified his unease.

He needed to leave. He took a hesitant step and another. Every sense felt heightened, and every sound, magnified. His legs felt shaky.

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