anxious - Story 7878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner stretched across the city square, a bold declaration. His photographs, images of his family, were not meant to be public. This unauthorized use made him want to rip it down. David stared at the bold, eye-catching colours. A feeling of dread washed over him. He was a sitting duck.

He felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead. His palms were slick. He felt as though he couldn't breathe. The air felt thin and heavy. He wanted to go home, but his feet felt glued to the spot.

He noticed a group of people gathering, pointing at his photographs. He was too embarrassed to stand here. He took a single step back and then turned around.

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