anxious - Story 7237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke during dinner. “Mom, what does this mean?” Sophia asked, her voice barely a whisper. Her fork clattered on her plate. Her appetite was gone.

Her mother tried to explain, but Sophia couldn’t focus. The food in front of her looked unappealing, and she felt a strong urge to get away from the table. She felt a chill, even though the house was warm.

She pushed back her chair. The sound echoed in the sudden silence. She quickly excused herself.

She ran upstairs and slammed her bedroom door, then leaned against it.

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