anxious - Story 7239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was blinding. Maya squinted, the bright light making her head throb. She sat on a bench in the park, clutching her phone. She felt the blood drain from her face.

She read the comments below the online post. Each one was a tiny arrow, piercing her heart. She felt the sting of tears behind her eyes, fighting them back.

She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself. The birdsong and rustling leaves seemed to mock her. She felt a desperate need to be invisible, to disappear into the crowd.

She slowly stood up, not sure where to go, but knowing she couldn't stay.

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