anxious - Story 7225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was punctuated only by the rhythmic thumping of her own heart. Amelia sat cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by folders. The stack of work seemed to grow with every passing moment. A cold sweat trickled down her spine.

She picked up a drawing, a clumsy rendering of a butterfly. Her own handwriting, so familiar, so childish. She couldn't focus. Her mind raced.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the feelings. She just wanted to be done with this. She needed to be done.

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