anxious - Story 7196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Laura prepared for the school's open house, she felt her pulse quicken. Sarah, her daughter, was finally in the final year of primary school. And her teacher? Mr. Evans. The same Mr. Evans who'd given Laura a D in algebra. She found herself avoiding eye contact with the mirrors, convinced she looked older, more vulnerable, than she did the last time she'd seen this man.

She kept fidgeting with her clothes, second-guessing her outfit choices. What would he think? Would he remember her? More importantly, would he judge Sarah based on Laura’s past performance?

She walked in and immediately looked for a quiet corner. The sound of children’s laughter seemed to grate on her nerves. She felt like a trespasser in a place she should never have been.

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