anxious - Story 7315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house felt oppressive. Amelia picked at a loose thread on the sofa cushion, the repetitive motion doing little to calm the tremor in her hands. She'd walked in to find David on the phone. But it wasn't English. It was German. His German was fluent, more than she'd ever heard, and the tone was far too intimate for a casual conversation.

She'd retreated, her breath catching in her throat, feeling the sting of unshed tears. The room spun.

She walked to the window, unable to bear the confines of the room, and looked out. The sky was the same, the world as usual, yet nothing felt right.

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