anxious - Story 7337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the hospital cafeteria seemed suddenly too harsh. Across the room, she saw her friend, Kate. "Did you see the notice?" Kate asked. "The Sunflower Diner." A cold wave washed over Jessica.

The Sunflower Diner was where she escaped when her shift was over, and when the day's stress and fatigue threatened to suffocate her. It was a safe place with familiar faces.

Jessica's hands felt clammy. She felt a sudden urge to get up and leave the cafeteria, to disappear. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to gain control, but the feeling remained a presence.

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