anxious - Story 7412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She fumbled with the clasp of her purse, her breath hitching. The wallet, plump with money, felt heavy, a weight dragging at her shoulders. The bustling farmer's market, usually a source of joy, suddenly felt like a pressure cooker.

“Excuse me,” she muttered, bumping into someone. She mumbled an apology, her cheeks burning. Every face seemed to scrutinize her.

She clutched the wallet tighter, her knuckles white. The thought of what to do, how to navigate this situation, filled her with a sense of impending doom. She needed to get away, hide, think.

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