anxious - Story 7350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hated being around so many people, the way they looked at you. Each conversation was a tightrope walk. The sun was also uncomfortably warm, and she was starting to sweat. She looked at her feet, and felt a burning in her chest.

Then, there he was. Her bear. It was a faded, familiar form, sitting among a jumble of toys. A wave of memories washed over her, and she felt a sense of disorientation. The seller, a young girl with bright eyes, was studying her.

"Five dollars," the girl said, her voice clear. She paid the girl, and walked away from the sale, holding her bear. As she walked, her breath slowed, and she started to feel more at peace.

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