anxious - Story 7829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating, the weight of expectation pressing down on him. His victory was now gone. He had carefully built his case, leaving no stone unturned. He could taste failure.

His opponent, Ms. Davies, approached him outside the courtroom. "Mr. Peterson," she said, her voice carefully modulated. "I have to admit, your approach is eerily similar to mine."

His stomach clenched. He couldn’t look at her, his vision becoming blurry. He felt like the ground had dropped away from him. He couldn’t even meet her eyes.

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