anxious - Story 7235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message was short: "Diary online. Check it out." Emily’s breath came in shallow, rapid pants. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She closed her eyes.

She clutched her chest, as if to contain the frantic beating of her heart. The world seemed to tilt. She felt a profound and unsettling sense of exposure.

The familiar comfort of her own room felt tainted. She ran to her closet and buried her face in a pile of clothes. She wanted to disappear, to vanish entirely.

A loud knock on her door startled her. It was her brother. "Hey, you okay? You haven't come down for dinner."

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