anxious - Story 7868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange, unnerving energy. He felt a sharp pang in his stomach. The package rested on his desk, a silent, unblinking sentinel. From Jennifer, a student he had struggled to reach, who had struggled to reach anyone. A gift? After all these years?

He rubbed his eyes. He remembered the feeling of failure that lingered after she dropped out. He felt like he had let her down. He had tried so hard with her.

He couldn't get a clear thought. He imagined it contained some kind of damning evidence. He felt a wave of nausea.

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