anxious - Story 7777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand, ornate library felt stifling to Charles. He ran a finger inside his collar, which suddenly felt too tight. Across from him, his sister, Iris, meticulously examined her nails, displaying an unnatural calm that infuriated him. He hadn't been sleeping well since their parents' death.

The lawyer’s voice was a practiced murmur, detailing the vast estate, the properties, the investments. Charles shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the leather creaking beneath him. Iris would inherit the bulk of the money. He knew this, and yet, he still found it hard to breathe.

The lawyer cleared his throat. “And to Charles, all the original artwork created by your grandfather, a renowned sculptor." Charles was stunned, his jaw actually dropping slightly. Iris’s head snapped up, and her gaze met his, her expression now unreadable, the calm gone.

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