anxious - Story 7356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hated heights. She hated confined spaces. And she definitely hated dusty attics filled with unknown objects. Yet, here she was. She forced herself to inhale, but it was like her lungs wouldn't work.

The attic door was a heavy, daunting presence. She hesitated, her hand hovering over the handle. This place felt…wrong. Like someone was watching.

She ventured inside, the flashlight beam cutting through the darkness. She found a trunk, its brass clasps gleaming. She was not able to get herself to approach it.

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