anxious - Story 7870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, a sense of mounting dread washing over him. The room felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken words. The gift was from Susan, a former student who had always been… complicated. She’d been brilliant, but also volatile, prone to sudden outbursts.

He felt a growing tightness in his chest. What did she want? Did she remember him kindly? Or did she hold a grudge?

He stood up, paced the room, and then sat back down. His hands were clammy. This was worse than a final exam.

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