anxious - Story 7227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of it was overwhelming. Sarah had expected a few things, a small box perhaps. This, however, was a treasure trove of her youth. Her head throbbed.

She flipped through a science project, the ink on the poster board already faded. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She needed to get some air.

She put the folder back and stood up, her legs unsteady. She had to get out of there. Now.

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