anxious - Story 7758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived during the weekly family dinner. Everyone was chatting, laughing. But when I saw the return address, everything changed. I went cold. I excused myself, but I didn't tell them where I was going. I went to my room.

My heart was in my throat, pounding against my ribs. I closed the door, leaned against it, and slid to the floor. The carpet was cold against my back.

I slowly opened the letter. Each word was a fresh insult, but each one was also a confession. A painful, unwelcome confession. I felt a pressure in my chest. I wanted to be anywhere but here.

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