anxious - Story 7331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Eleanor's inbox, bold and unyielding. “Closing Notice: Mama Rosa’s.” Her hand wouldn’t quite reach the delete button. It hovered, her fingers twitching. A knot twisted in her stomach, a feeling she hadn't known she could experience so profoundly.

She reread the subject line. Each word was a tiny hammer blow against her chest. Mama Rosa’s was more than a restaurant; it was her sanctuary, the place she went to when the world felt too loud, too complicated.

Eleanor got up from her desk, the chair scraping sharply against the floor. She needed something, anything, to distract her. She paced the small office, her breath coming in shallow gasps. Maybe a walk?

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