anxious - Story 7066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” she whispered, the word barely audible. The email's content was a blurry mess, but the meaning was crystal clear. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm that echoed in her ears.

She reread the email, each word a fresh wound. The scholarship was everything. It was the only way she could afford to stay in school. Her dreams, her future, all hung precariously in the balance.

She slammed her fist on the desk. The books on her desk jumped. She wanted to scream, to break something. Instead, she rose and went to her bedroom, pulling the blanket over her head and curling up tightly in the fetal position.

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