anxious - Story 7334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" The words, delivered by her friend Sarah, felt like a physical blow. "The Rusty Bucket is shutting down." Emily's hands immediately clenched.

She’d spent countless evenings at The Rusty Bucket, laughing with friends, nursing a pint, feeling the hum of happy conversation around her. It was a haven, a place where she could forget the pressures of her life.

Emily’s pulse hammered in her ears. She felt a strong urge to deny it, to pretend it wasn’t real. She found herself fiddling with the strap of her purse. "No," she managed to say, her voice barely a whisper. "That can't be true."

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