anxious - Story 7708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning meeting was over, and Ben felt a sudden wave of exhaustion wash over him. His head throbbed, and he longed to just go home and curl up in bed. He forced a smile as he gathered his things, trying to project an air of normalcy.

"Hey Ben," said Mark, from IT, coming up to him. "Did you ever spend your summers at Camp Skylark?" Ben's stomach twisted.

He stopped, the blood draining from his face. "Um… yes," he admitted, his voice barely audible. He really couldn't handle this right now.

Mark's face lit up. "No way! I was there too! That place was so amazing! I have so many good memories." The office started blurring. Ben wished he could simply disappear.

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