anxious - Story 7458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a stone in Chloe's stomach. A sick feeling churned within her, and she felt a strong impulse to be sick. Her parents, the people who loved her... not her blood? She squeezed her eyes shut. She needed to call someone, to talk. She needed a lifeline.

Her hands shook as she reached for her phone, scrolling through her contacts, but she hesitated. Who could she tell? How could she even begin to explain? She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the very ground beneath her feet was shifting.

She went to the sink and splashed cold water on her face, but it did nothing to soothe the turmoil within. She felt compelled to run, to escape.

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