anxious - Story 7749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the dogwood tree came down, breaking with a loud snap, Daniel felt a familiar lurch in his stomach. He pictured the insurance, the claims, the mess. He felt a strong need to do something, anything, but didn't know where to start. He felt paralyzed.

He kept glancing out the window, unable to look away. He saw his neighbor, Mrs. Davis, standing amidst the wreckage, looking small and lost. He knew he should go help, but his feet felt rooted to the floor.

He reached for a glass of water, his hand shaking. He wished he could rewind time. He took a long drink, but it didn't help. He had a pressing feeling, and it was hard to relax.

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