anxious - Story 7200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah bit her lip, staring at the school sign. Her daughter, Emily, had gotten Ms. Jones. The same Ms. Jones who had accused Sarah of cheating on a history exam. The memory, a stinging reminder of her teenage insecurity, still burned bright. She felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead.

She felt a wave of nausea. She'd always been a rule-follower, and the accusation had felt like a betrayal. She felt the old anger rising, the familiar sting of injustice.

She straightened her shoulders and took a deep breath. She wouldn't let her own past ruin Emily's present. But as she walked through the school doors, she felt every muscle in her body tense.

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