anxious - Story 7437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza discovered the deception while scrolling through a cooking forum. A post featured her "Lavender Lemonade" recipe, attributed to a popular food influencer. A wave of heat flushed across her face.

Her fingers trembled as she clicked on the comments, each one praising the influencer's “original” creation. She felt a need to retreat to a dark space. She felt so many emotions that she did not understand.

Eliza abruptly shut down her laptop, the screen going black, reflecting her own distorted image. Her breath was shallow and rapid. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world.

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