anxious - Story 7748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the fallen fir, sprawled across the entire back yard, made Kevin's throat tighten. He'd been meaning to trim his own pine trees. He hadn't wanted to annoy Mr. Harrison. Now this. He felt a sense of impending doom.

He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, as if needing physical support. His mind buzzed with questions: Was anyone hurt? What was the damage? How would they afford to fix it?

His palms grew slick, and he felt a peculiar pressure building behind his eyes. He wished he could simply vanish. He felt the urge to leave the house, to run away, to hide.

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