anxious - Story 7416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The desert wind whipped around her, carrying grains of sand that stung her face. She'd driven far from the city, seeking solitude. Instead, the vast emptiness only amplified the internal chaos. The wallet, stuffed in the glove compartment, felt like a ticking bomb.

Her hands clenched the steering wheel so hard her knuckles were white. She'd picked up the wallet from the gas station restroom. The sun dipped below the horizon, casting long, menacing shadows.

Each passing car, each rustle of the desert brush, sent a fresh wave of unease crashing over her. The silence of the desert wasn't calming; it was terrifying.

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