anxious - Story 7447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the dorm room buzzed, a high-pitched whine that amplified the pressure building inside Clara’s chest. Her roommate, Amy, was at her desk, typing furiously on her laptop, a casual posture that seemed unnaturally relaxed.

Clara’s journal lay on the floor, propped open against the bed's side, a clear message. She didn’t know what to do.

Her palms began to sweat. Her legs felt unsteady.

“Did you… did you read my journal?” Clara finally blurted, her voice thin and reedy.

Amy looked up, her expression shifting, not quite meeting Clara’s gaze.

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