anxious - Story 7288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. It was a request from her old classmate, Peter. She swallowed, her throat suddenly dry. She remembered the way he used to trip her in the hallways and the way his friends would laugh.

Her fingers felt numb, as she brought the phone up closer to her face. She felt a sudden need to tidy her desk, rearranging the pens and notepads to get a sense of control.

She felt a phantom pain in her side, where he had once shoved her. The memories felt fresh, potent. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing pulse.

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