anxious - Story 7840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Where did you get this?" Mark's voice was low, and his face was pale. His wife, Emily, held up a printout of a bank statement. The secret was out. He had hoped to keep this hidden.

He sat down heavily on the couch. He felt a sudden, searing pain in his chest. He was going to have to explain. He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt cold.

He ran a hand over his face. He stammered, trying to find the right words. His mind was racing, trying to formulate a plausible explanation.

He looked at Emily, her expression unreadable. He felt a profound sense of shame, and an even stronger sense of dread. The silence in the room was deafening. He felt trapped.

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