anxious - Story 7080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note read, "Dinner tonight?" from "Bookworm_Buddy". She sat at her kitchen table, staring blankly at the words. This was a nightmare. She felt her chest tighten with each breath, her hands clenching into fists.

She paced her living room, her mind racing. She went over every conversation, searching for a clue. She grabbed a glass of water, only to spill it.

She felt a sense of panic building, threatening to overwhelm her. She texted her friend, "I'm not feeling well. Maybe another time?" She dropped her phone on the table.

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