anxious - Story 7306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're saying... you're sure?" Amelia’s voice was barely a whisper. She stared at the spreadsheet on her laptop screen, its cruel simplicity mocking her. Mark, the new hire, was earning a fortune.

Her heart pounded against her ribs. She felt a need to pace. She walked towards the window, looking out at the city. The noise outside sounded muffled, as if she were underwater. Her chest tightened.

She thought about her bills, her student loans, the sacrifices she'd made. A sense of resentment, sharp and bitter, began to bubble up. The air in the room felt suddenly thin.

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