anxious - Story 7443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a tremor begin in her hands. The room’s familiar clutter seemed to press in on her, suffocating. Her roommate, Emily, was unusually quiet, sketching in her notebook at the shared desk. It was almost too quiet.

Sarah glanced toward her own desk, where her journal always resided. It wasn't there. Her breath hitched.

"Emily, have you seen my journal?" Sarah asked, her voice cracking. She felt a need to retreat, to hide.

Emily looked up, her expression carefully neutral. “No. Why? Did you lose it?”

A bead of sweat trickled down Sarah’s temple. “No, I just… can’t find it.” She felt a wave of nausea rise. She was cornered.

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