anxious - Story 7003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was too loud, the scent of roasting beans too strong. Amelia picked at the chipped paint on the table, trying to appear nonchalant. Her heart thrummed a frantic rhythm against her ribs. The tattoo, a near-perfect copy of her "Ephemeral Echoes" watercolor, felt invasive.

She'd been alerted by a mutual acquaintance, who had messaged her a picture. The design now existed on someone's forearm, a constant reminder of her own artistic vulnerability. The thought of it made her feel a little sick.

The woman across from her, a friend, noticed her fidgeting. "You okay, Em?" she asked, her voice laced with concern.

Amelia tried to smile, but it felt wooden. "Fine," she managed to squeak out, reaching for her mug of cold coffee. "Just… a little overwhelmed." She avoided the friend's eye.

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