anxious - Story 7038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mom, is this…true?” Her son, Ben, held a copy of the newly released biography. The cover photo was of her but it wasn't *her*. A knot formed in Claire’s stomach.

The room, usually filled with family photos, suddenly felt alien. She couldn’t meet her son's gaze. She felt a warmth creep up her neck, her cheeks burning.

She felt an overwhelming need to explain, to justify, to somehow rewrite the narrative that had been imposed upon her. She started to ramble, her words tumbling over each other.

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