anxious - Story 7856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the handwritten entries, a knot forming in his throat. "Start a business." The pressure of the world seemed to be closing in around him. He felt pinned down, weighed down by this unexpected legacy.

His fingers nervously tapped against the table. The next item, "Learn to sail," produced a sharp, instinctive response. He had always avoided water, the sea a source of unknown terrors. He thought of his mother, her smile, the way she had always encouraged him to be brave.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing inside of him. The final entry, "Fall in love," felt like a cruel joke. He picked up his father's favourite pen and put the list to one side. He didn't think he could do it.

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