anxious - Story 7958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. The time capsule, a small, unassuming metal box, sat on the rickety wooden table. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt like he was pinned down, unable to move.

He wasn’t supposed to be here. He'd been trying to stay busy, to keep his mind from wandering. He should have left it buried. He hated surprises. His mouth went dry.

With a trembling hand, he opened the box. Inside were some old photographs, a faded map, and a key. The key was the worst part. He couldn’t look away.

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