anxious - Story 7469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We have to," her mother insisted. "It's for the best." But for what best? The antique dolls, the ones her mother had spent years collecting, were being auctioned. She struggled to remain composed. A tremor ran through her body.

She walked through the house, each step heavy, each room filled with ghosts. She felt a pressure building behind her eyes. Her vision swam.

She knew she would not sleep tonight. She felt a deep, raw ache, a wound that throbbed with every beat of her heart. The house felt empty already.

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