anxious - Story 7023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Sarah. She clutched the crumpled drawing, Lily's latest rendition of the familiar figure. Her heart thumped a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She kept reliving the feeling of being a child, the weight of the invisible friend. Her breath hitched as she remembered the games, the whispered secrets, and the way the figure seemed to watch her. She poured another cup of tea, her hand shaking so badly that the liquid sloshed over the rim.

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