anxious - Story 7837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo stared at the screen, heart pounding in his chest. A spreadsheet titled "Future Plans" revealed a secret savings account belonging to his wife, Maria. He'd never known. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. This wasn't how he thought they functioned, together.

He slowly read through the numbers. A sense of disorientation washed over him. The room seemed to tilt slightly. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing.

He felt a sudden, urgent need to move. He paced the room, back and forth, trying to process the information. The air felt heavy, oppressive, and made it difficult to breathe. The world seemed suddenly unfamiliar.

He felt a desperate need to find Maria, to confront her, but his legs felt leaden. He felt paralyzed by doubt and confusion. He found himself struggling to find solid ground.

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