anxious - Story 7339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach flipped as she read the sign. "The Happy Hut, Closed." Sarah clutched her coffee, the warmth doing nothing to fight off the chill that had settled in her bones.

The Happy Hut was where she and her best friend, Maya, went every Saturday. It was a tradition, a source of unwavering consistency in her life. It was a haven.

She felt a sharp pang in her chest. She needed to contact Maya, to talk about it, but her hand wouldn't move, her fingers were unyielding. She felt a sudden wave of exhaustion.

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