anxious - Story 7895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt interminable. Ethan’s knuckles were white, gripping the strap above his seat. He couldn’t seem to stop picking at the loose threads on his jeans. The failing grade, a resounding C-, echoed in his head, a constant reminder of his perceived inadequacy. The city lights blurred through the window, the familiar landscape suddenly alien and hostile. He pictured his parents' faces, the inevitable questions, the unspoken disappointment.

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