anxious - Story 7209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a cage, so she decided to go for a drive. But when Maria stepped outside, her breath hitched. Her reliable station wagon was nowhere in sight. The world around her seemed to spin.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to make sense of the situation. Her skin prickled. A wave of heat washed over her, making her lightheaded. She was sure she had parked there. She was sure.

She felt a desperate need to fix this, to make it all go away. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone, the world around her becoming a blurry mess.

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