anxious - Story 7844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell's chime sliced through the evening's calm, immediately jolting Michael upright from his comfortable position on the couch. He knew who it was, and his gut twisted. It was Mrs. Peterson from downstairs.

He hesitated, a sudden reluctance seizing him, but the chime came again, insistent. He felt a wave of heat wash over him.

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to move. Each step toward the door felt like trudging through quicksand. His hands were damp as he reached for the handle.

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