anxious - Story 7990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to work all week, calling in sick with a vague, unspecified illness. The announcement had knocked him for six. He couldn't eat; his stomach felt tied in knots. He was short of breath, shallowly inhaling and exhaling.

He pulled the blinds down, plunging the apartment into a dim, almost suffocating darkness. The silence amplified the internal noise, the racing thoughts, the endless "what ifs."

He kept replaying the conversation with the building manager in his mind, searching for clues, for anything he might have missed. He felt utterly and completely exposed, vulnerable to whatever the future held.

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