anxious - Story 7308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. Sarah sat on the edge of her bed, staring at the number she needed to dial. She hadn’t slept well. The numbers kept replaying in her mind: her salary, the new hire’s salary, the difference between them.

She glanced at the clock. Time was ticking, and she wasn’t getting any closer to a solution. The thought of this phone call created a knot in her stomach, making it difficult to breathe.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. The weight of her situation felt crushing. She knew she had to make the call, but a sense of dread overwhelmed her. She just wished this had never happened.

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