anxious - Story 7700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck. Richard sat trapped in his car in the parking garage, his hands gripping the steering wheel. He couldn't bring himself to go in, to face the day. He felt a deep, profound sense of unease.

He’d rehearsed his speech countless times. He’d studied every detail. But now, as the time approached, he felt a rising tide of panic. The air in the car felt thick and heavy.

He took deep breaths, trying to find some semblance of calm, but the feeling of foreboding grew stronger. He felt a physical pressure on his chest, a sensation of being crushed. He didn't want to fail. He didn’t want to be judged. He wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole.

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