anxious - Story 7199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David's hand shook as he poured his morning coffee. It wasn't the caffeine; it was the news. His son, Leo, would be in Mrs. Chen's class this year. The same Mrs. Chen who’d had him in her class, the same Mrs. Chen who had made him feel like a total failure.

He’d always struggled with math, and Mrs. Chen had been merciless. He felt his face flush as he remembered her criticisms and the shame he’d felt. He kept squeezing his mug as he replayed every negative memory he had of her.

He knew he needed to pull himself together. He couldn't let his own past interfere with Leo's future. But the thought of seeing her again, of reliving those painful memories, was nearly unbearable.

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