anxious - Story 7645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, have you heard anything?" Michael asked, his voice barely above a whisper. He leaned in towards Karen, his eyes darting nervously around the office. He felt a sudden urge to confide, to share the weight on his chest.

Karen shook her head, but her expression mirrored his own discomfort. He had been working at this company for fifteen years, he had seniority. What did this mean for him? Retirement plans... future prospects.

He felt a tremor run through him, a physical manifestation of his apprehension. He needed to know what the future held. He had a family to protect.

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