anxious - Story 7848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. The banging on the ceiling was relentless. He couldn't relax. He hated conflict, and Mr. Davis, his downstairs neighbor, was known for his temper.

He grabbed his phone, his fingers fumbling with the keys. Should he call the landlord? Should he go downstairs and talk to Mr. Davis himself? The internal battle raged.

He felt a tremor run through his limbs. Every possibility seemed fraught with peril. He tossed the phone on the table. He couldn’t handle the situation.

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