anxious - Story 7798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the house felt thick, stale, as if it hadn’t breathed in years. David stood in the hallway, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt the need to get out, to run away from this place that held such a grim history.

He stared at the spot on the floor where the body had been found, according to the police report. He wanted to scrub it, burn it, make the past disappear. He clenched his fists, trying to contain the rising panic.

He pulled out his phone, searching for the number of a friend. He just needed to hear another voice, to break the silence, to find some semblance of normalcy again. He was barely able to speak when the friend answered.

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