anxious - Story 7830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop was a mess of tools and half-finished projects. David felt a tremor in his hands. He'd worked tirelessly, pouring his heart and soul into his invention. This contest was everything.

Suddenly, a shadow fell across his workbench. It was Clara, a fellow competitor. She held up her prototype. “David?” she asked, her voice tight. “Take a look at this. It's… the exact same thing."

He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His face was hot. His carefully constructed world was crumbling before him. He could only swallow hard and stare at the floor.

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