anxious - Story 7137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The air was thick with tension, heavy with the weight of the accusations. Maria sat stiffly in her seat, her back ramrod straight, forcing herself to maintain a facade of composure. Her fingers were twisting a pen, bending it nearly in two.

Each word spoken felt like a hammer blow. The accusations echoed around the room, each one chipping away at her sense of self. It was a humiliating experience, a betrayal of her trust in academia and justice.

Her heart raced, pounding against her ribs. She was desperate to defend herself, to shout out her truth. But, she knew she had to remain silent and calm.

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