anxious - Story 7826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, the words blurring before his eyes. The proposal was his ticket. The promotion was his. Then, there was the phone call. His palms were slick with perspiration. He felt like he couldn’t take a proper breath.

His boss had summoned him. Across the room stood Emily, a colleague who always seemed to thrive. "So," his boss began, his voice neutral. "It seems you both developed the same plan."

Emily’s smile was forced. He felt like his stomach had fallen to his feet. He could only stare at the floor, a sense of doom washing over him.

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