anxious - Story 7033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet. Sarah eyed it warily. It was her agent. “The book deal is finalized, Sarah! The publicity tour is set.” Her throat constricted. A book deal? A tour? About *her*?

She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she’d fought to break. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. Her hands felt clammy, she could feel a bead of perspiration trickle down her temple.

She mumbled a reply, words she didn’t fully hear herself speak. The room started to spin. She gripped the edge of the table to steady herself.

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