anxious - Story 7467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped teacup felt surprisingly heavy in her hand. “It’s time, Lily,” her sister had said, her voice gentle, but firm. But it wasn't time. It couldn’t be. The teacup was a tangible connection to her great-grandmother. Now, it was going to be sold. A cold sweat erupted on her brow.

She set the cup down with a clatter, the sound jarring in the otherwise quiet room. She walked to the window, the movement feeling clumsy and awkward. The world outside seemed blurred, indistinct.

She found herself unable to breathe, her lungs constricted, her thoughts racing out of control.

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