anxious - Story 7395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, filtering through the library windows, created a patchwork of light and shadow on the table. She had been trying to focus on her research, but her mind kept straying, looping back to the argument she'd had with her sister that morning. A feeling of dread coiled within her, tightening with each passing moment.

She was engrossed in a biography of Virginia Woolf, and the letter popped out as she turned the pages. It was a note, folded neatly, penned in a delicate hand. The paper crackled slightly as she unfolded it.

She felt a sudden rush of discomfort, her heart quickening. The words were small and neat, filled with a secret she couldn’t yet fathom. The weight of the unknown seemed to press down on her chest, making it hard to breathe. The familiar solace of the library vanished, replaced by an unsettling sense of exposure.

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