anxious - Story 7040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The author's note, at the beginning of the biography, claimed, “This is the story of Emily Carter, revealed.” Emily wanted to scream. She took another sip of tea, but it did nothing to settle the agitation in her stomach.

She felt a buzzing sensation in her ears. She felt a strong urge to get away, to be far, far away from this book, from these words, from the feeling of being exposed.

She abruptly stood up and began to pack a bag, her movements frantic and disorganized. She needed to escape. She needed to disappear.

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