anxious - Story 7287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived just as Amelia was about to start her morning coffee. She stared at the screen, her grip tightening on the mug. "Robert Jones would like to be your friend." High school. The constant teasing. The whispered insults.

Her heart began to race. She set the mug down with a clatter, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the otherwise quiet apartment. She replayed conversations in her head, anticipating the potential outcomes.

Amelia felt a churning in her stomach. The need to do something, anything, suddenly overwhelmed her. She quickly turned on the television, mindlessly flipping through channels.

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