anxious - Story 7705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification tone made Liam jump, and he immediately regretted the loud sound. He preferred to be invisible, blending in with the background noise of the workplace. Today was already difficult, with a project at stake.

"Did you ever go to Camp Serenity?" came a voice from behind him. Liam stiffened. It was Chloe, from accounting.

He slowly turned, forcing a casual smile. "Uh, yeah, a long time ago," he replied, his voice a little too high. He ran a hand through his hair. He needed to focus.

Chloe's eyes widened. "No way! I spent every summer there. I remember the lake and the canoeing. It was amazing." The blood drained from Liam's face. He remembered the lake, too.

"That's… cool," he mumbled, reaching for his water bottle. His hand trembled as he took a sip.

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