anxious - Story 7649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I couldn't eat. I couldn't focus. I couldn’t even watch TV, which was usually my go-to de-stressor. Every little noise, every footstep in the hall, made me jump. I'd seen the confidential document, the one detailing the potential sale. The implications for my role... they were devastating.

My hands trembled as I made another cup of tea. The taste was metallic, wrong. I felt a growing sense of panic, a sensation that I was losing my grip on something vital.

I kept seeing the faces of my colleagues, wondering if they knew, if they were as unnerved as I was. We were all at risk. The thought was a cold, hard knot in my chest.

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