anxious - Story 7285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Ugh,” Maria sighed, pushing the plate of food away. The friend request was staring back at her from her laptop. It was from Kevin, who used to make fun of her weight in high school.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a pressure that squeezed the air from her lungs. She got up from the table, pacing the kitchen floor. Each step felt heavy.

She stared out of the window. The world seemed overly bright, the sounds of the city too loud. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, trying to find some grounding.

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