anxious - Story 7276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is your team," the supervisor said, gesturing with a sweep of the hand. Emily felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as though all the eyes in the room were now fixed on her. She forced a smile as she saw the team stare back, all faces unknown.

She had spent months preparing for this promotion, studying for it. Now that she had it, she found herself filled with dread. She had been safe in her old role, content with her work. The stakes were higher now. She felt a throbbing sensation in her temples.

She struggled to listen to the introduction, her mind was racing. How would she manage? Would she fit in? Could she do it? She looked down at her hands and began clenching them into fists.

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