anxious - Story 7935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the hospital room was broken only by the rhythmic beeping of machines. Then, a knock. It was the nurse, carrying a vase of daffodils. No card.

David stared at the flowers, his mind racing. Was it a mistake? Had the wrong room been assigned? Or was this…intentional?

He felt a sudden, profound unease. He shifted in the bed, the movement sending a jolt of pain through his side. Who would send flowers to a hospital room with no identification? The mystery consumed him.

He reached for the phone, his hand trembling. He had to find out.

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