anxious - Story 7668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator began to shake, and it made him stiffen. Kevin’s stomach flipped. He glanced quickly at the other passenger, a young woman who looked bored, not terrified.

He took a deep breath, trying to slow his hammering heart. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He imagined the worst, a freefall, a crash.

He had a report due, a date that night… He needed to get out.

The thought of being trapped, helpless, was unbearable. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. The air felt thin, and tight, and hot.

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