anxious - Story 7247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the kitchen counter, its stark black lettering a declaration of chaos. She kept rereading the phrases: *“Intermingling of data… confidential information… potential impact…”* Her stomach twisted into a painful knot. She felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to disappear.

She moved from room to room, unable to find a place to rest. The furniture seemed to mock her, each object a silent reminder of the life she knew. She needed to do something, to take action, but her limbs felt heavy, useless.

She stood at the kitchen sink, running the water, but the sound didn't soothe her. She gazed at her reflection in the window, but the face looking back at her was a stranger. This could not be happening. This could not be real. She clenched her jaw.

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