anxious - Story 7297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via a curt text message: “Situation changed. Party's off.” She felt a jolt, as if she'd been physically struck. Her hands began to tremble, and she quickly sat down on the edge of the bed. She had to focus on breathing. The carefully chosen outfit, now laid out on the bed, seemed to taunt her.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She tried to think, but her mind was a jumbled mess. She wanted to understand, to know why, but she was afraid of the answer. The house seemed to shrink around her, the walls closing in. She needed to escape.

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