anxious - Story 7078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat at her desk, unable to concentrate on her work. The email from "SunshineAndRainbows" requesting to meet in person, was a physical weight on her chest. She found herself staring at the screen, imagining the conversation, playing out potential outcomes.

She began to tap her foot, a rhythmic drumming against the carpet. The sound filled the otherwise quiet office. She could feel the pulse in her throat. She needed to escape. She found herself making coffee.

She felt like she was trapped in a dream. The office felt like a fishbowl. She felt the urge to jump out the window and run. The coffee was scalding.

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