anxious - Story 7098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to her childhood home had been a blur. Now, parked in the driveway, she sat there, gripping the steering wheel. The house loomed, a solid, unwavering presence against the twilight sky. Her chest felt constricted.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing beat of her heart. She glanced at the familiar front door, the chipped paint, the crooked welcome mat. Every detail, magnified in her mind, triggered a wave of dread.

She didn't want to go inside, not yet. She was terrified of what waited for her. She was terrified of the questions, the pity, the judgment. She was terrified of the past, and she had to face it again.

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