anxious - Story 7429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, great," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. The invite had landed with a thud, and she felt her shoulders slump. She'd known it was coming, but she had hoped against hope that it wouldn't. She walked over to the kitchen counter and leaned against it.

She ran her hands over her face, feeling the lines etched by time and experience. She couldn't stop the thoughts swirling in her head. The potential for embarrassment, the pressure to impress, the fear of being judged... It was all too much.

She started to chew on her lip, a habit she'd long tried to break. She felt trapped, the choices ahead of her suddenly narrow.

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