anxious - Story 7707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales figures were down, the pressure from his boss was mounting, and Daniel felt like he was drowning. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the turmoil in his chest. He needed to appear confident, in control.

"Hey Daniel, did you ever attend Camp Firefly?" Sarah from the HR department asked from his doorway. Her voice sounded far away, like it was coming from a tunnel.

Daniel froze. Firefly? The camp he went to as a kid. He had tried to forget about it, and thought he had. "Yeah, why?" he answered hesitantly. He really needed a break.

Sarah beamed. "I was there too! The campfire stories...and the lake. It was the best!" The room seemed to spin. Daniel felt the walls closing in. He felt something rising in his throat.

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