anxious - Story 7980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unexpected phone call, from Mr. Green, left Tom feeling a sense of dread. The thought of any conversation was… unpleasant. He kept the phone away from his ear.

"Tom, hey! I was thinking, your yard gets great sun. I was going to try and grow some tomatoes. Could I, perhaps, use a small section of your yard? Just a few plants?" Tom could feel his hands begin to sweat. He didn't want this.

He looked out the window at the perfect lawn. His sanctuary. The thought of something new… something different… was deeply disturbing. "I… I'm not sure," he said, his voice distant. "I need to... think about it."

He hung up the phone quickly, and then sat there, staring at the wall, and the world seemed a little off-kilter.

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