anxious - Story 7825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the art studio was almost deafening. Mark's breath hitched. He had worked in secret for months, concealing his project from his peer group. He'd never felt more exposed. The gallery opening was tomorrow. He was certain he'd be the star.

A tap on the shoulder. It was Jessica, her face contorted with confusion. “Mark? Can we talk? Because your sculpture… it's almost identical to mine. And I was supposed to have the debut."

Mark’s hand instinctively reached for his chest, as if to calm his wildly beating heart. He looked at the floor, overwhelmed. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

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