anxious - Story 7427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on the coffee table, a scarlet stain against the neutral decor. She circled it, avoiding any direct contact. Her mouth felt dry, and she unconsciously licked her lips.

She grabbed a glass of water, then paced back and forth, the action a familiar ritual when she found herself in this state. She replayed the past, anticipating the uncomfortable questions and the inevitable comparisons.

She began to pick at the corner of the invitation, tearing the paper into tiny, insignificant shreds. The thought of facing everyone filled her with a dread so profound it made her want to weep.

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