anxious - Story 7048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, and Elena jumped, her heart leaping into her throat. She stared at the screen, the unfamiliar number a potential harbinger of more chaos. The drilling had stopped for a moment, and the sudden silence only amplified the anticipation.

She closed her eyes, summoning all her resolve, and took a deep breath, but the air felt thin and unsatisfying. Her fingers fidgeted. She kept catching herself biting her lip.

She pictured the mess, the dust, the invasion of privacy. She had to stay calm. The thought of confronting the situation, made her stomach churn. With shaky fingers, she reached for the phone, bracing 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