anxious - Story 7135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just… just look at it," Sarah mumbled, pushing the paper across the table towards her roommate. Her voice was barely audible, her throat tight with a feeling of being near to tears. The paper, once a symbol of her intellectual work, now felt like a lead weight in her possession.

Her hands shook as she reached for her water bottle, spilling a few drops. The icy liquid didn't offer any relief to the fire blazing in her cheeks. She felt trapped, encircled. All her previous confidence had evaporated, leaving behind a residue of vulnerability and fear.

Her head throbbed. She struggled to keep the tears at bay, desperately wishing she could just disappear. She needed someone, anyone, to believe her.

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