anxious - Story 7190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen still glowed faintly, a ghostly reminder. He'd put the phone back down after quickly ending the call, and retreated to the office. Now, Claire sat alone in the living room, a storm brewing inside. Her breath hitched in her throat, shallow and uneven. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, as if she'd swallowed fire. She picked at the threads of the throw pillow, the motion the only outlet for the turmoil within 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