anxious - Story 7445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Olivia’s fingers trembled as she reached for the doorknob. She had to steel herself for the encounter. She didn't want to engage, but it was unavoidable.

Her roommate, Jessica, was sitting on the floor, surrounded by textbooks, a half-eaten bag of chips beside her. The sight of Jessica’s backpack, resting casually on Olivia’s bed, caused a fresh wave of unease to wash over her.

Olivia’s journal had been there before she left that morning. Now, it was gone.

"Hey," Olivia said, her voice flat. She hoped Jessica hadn’t seen anything.

Jessica looked up, her expression open, but unreadable. “Hey. How was your day?”

Olivia felt the urge to flee.

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