anxious - Story 7738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was supposed to be a celebration, a farewell gathering for Daniel. But for Leo, the noise and the chatter felt overwhelming. He kept finding himself drifting to the edges of the crowd, away from the loud music and the forced cheerfulness. He nursed his drink, the ice clinking against the glass a staccato rhythm of doom.

He watched Daniel move through the room, laughing and hugging people. He wanted to join in the merriment, but he couldn't. His throat constricted. He felt an ache in his chest that wouldn’t go away. He excused himself, citing needing some air.

He went to the patio, where he leaned against the brick wall, his chest heaving.

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