anxious - Story 7263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Sarah whispered to herself, the words a mantra against the rising tide of unease. Her heart hammered against her ribs like a trapped bird. The list was on the door, taunting her. She hadn't made the team she'd dedicated her life to.

She hadn't slept last night. She had spent the evening poring over old videos of herself, searching for a sign, any sign, of what she'd done wrong. Now, she felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a tightness in her chest that made her want to scream.

The air in the locker room felt thick, suffocating. The other gymnasts, their faces bright with elation, seemed to be moving in slow motion. She couldn’t bring herself to meet their eyes. She wanted to be anywhere but there, anywhere she wasn't forced to confront her failure. The world was spinning, and she gripped the wall for support.

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