anxious - Story 7768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house seemed to glare back at him. It stood in contrast to the tree, which had been his only friend as a child, was no more. A knot tied itself in his gut. His leg began to tap rapidly.

He felt a rising heat in his cheeks. He muttered under his breath, "Unbelievable," his voice tight with an unspoken emotion. The ground seemed to shift beneath his feet.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. He wanted to undo what had been done. His fingers clenched into fists as he walked toward the empty space.

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