anxious - Story 7059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was stifling inside. She couldn't stop moving, couldn't quite plant her feet. Her gaze darted from object to object, as if searching for a hidden threat. She noticed the way her hands were shaking, and she quickly shoved them into her pockets.

The owner of the shop was taking an awfully long time to find the ring. She fidgeted, her knee bouncing up and down. She needed to leave, to get out of this place.

The longer she waited, the worse it got. She felt a pressure building behind her eyes, the familiar sensation that threatened to overwhelm her. She took a deep breath, trying to calm 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