anxious - Story 7439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria found the article during her morning coffee. A glossy magazine highlighted a "Rose Petal Cake" that looked undeniably like hers. It was credited to a celebrity baker, and Maria was not named. Her fingers tightened around the ceramic mug.

She had to focus on finishing her coffee. She felt an urgent need to finish. She placed the cup back in the saucer with a sharp clack.

Maria pushed herself away from the table, a sudden and compelling need to move. She didn’t know where she was going, she just knew she couldn’t stay. She hurried through the front door and out into the street.

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