anxious - Story 7736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But what about Friday nights?” Ben asked, his voice sounding small. He hated how it sounded. He was sitting on the porch swing, and Sam was standing in front of him, explaining it all. The weather was perfect, the setting sun painting the sky in vibrant hues, but Ben barely noticed. The beauty of the moment felt obscene.

He felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He squeezed them shut briefly, then opened them again, trying to regain some composure. He needed to understand. He needed to make it stop.

He kept glancing at his hands, wanting to move, to fidget, to do anything to release the tension that had seized him. He didn’t want the conversation to end, and he didn't want it to continue.

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