anxious - Story 7929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his laptop, the words refusing to form. Each click of the mouse was a small explosion in the silence. The anticipation was a vise, squeezing the breath from his lungs. The weight of uncertainty was crushing him.

He was in a support group chat, and the messages flashed across the screen. He hadn't contributed anything, unable to share what he was feeling, but he noticed a new user join the chat. He typed a simple greeting, and the other person replied, a short acknowledgement of their shared condition.

This simple acknowledgement of their shared pain gave him some form of release.

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