anxious - Story 7664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator’s stillness was a physical presence, a wall of quiet that threatened to suffocate him. David tapped his foot, a nervous rhythm against the metal floor. His gaze darted between the control panel and the ceiling, searching for an escape.

"Anyone know how these things work?" he asked, his voice wavering slightly. The other woman, dressed in a smart business suit, shook her head. He was on his own.

He imagined the worst-case scenario: being trapped for days, running out of food, no water… He swallowed hard. The thought sent a jolt of panic through him.

He pictured the headlines. "Accountant Suffers Grueling Experience!" He began to breathe shallowly, each inhale a struggle. He needed to get out. He had to get out, now.

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