anxious - Story 7433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, Mom!" Leo’s mother exclaimed, waving a magazine in the air. "The 'Emerald Enchantment' cookies! They're on the cover!" Leo stared at the colorful photograph, his stomach twisting in knots. The cookies, his grandmother's recipe, were exactly as he remembered.

The familiar, yet somehow wrong, sight of his creation, attributed to a fancy bakery he’d never heard of, caused a pressure in his chest. He could feel his skin flush.

“Aren't they beautiful, darling?” his mother continued, oblivious to his discomfort. Leo mumbled a reply, his throat tight, and excused himself, needing air. He headed to the back garden, the warmth of the sun failing to soothe the chill that had settled deep inside him.

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