anxious - Story 7998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, urgent need to check his email. Then he saw it: a notification from the university alumni association. His palms were slick with perspiration. The subject line: “Essay Publication.” He clicked. The essay, the carefully crafted version of himself, was now public.

His breath grew shallow. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He stood up, pacing his apartment like a caged animal. He knew he should be proud. But all he felt was unease. The thought of being judged, dissected, felt suffocating.

He wanted to rip the essay from the internet, to erase it from existence. He could not. It was done. He slumped into his chair, the world seeming to tilt on its axis.

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