anxious - Story 7919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact as Mr. Miller spoke, his gaze flitting from the overgrown lilac bush to the chipped paint on the fence. The request to trim the bush was more than just a request; it felt like a judgment on his neglect.

The corners of his mouth twitched as he fought the urge to flee. He could feel the blood rushing to his face, making him hot and flushed. His fingers tapped a restless rhythm on his thigh.

He mumbled something in response, his voice barely audible. He longed to be anywhere else, away from the scrutiny, away from this situation that made him feel so exposed and vulnerable.

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