anxious - Story 7473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a high-pitched, irritating sound that seemed to amplify the internal tremor rattling through Amelia. She cautiously peered through the peephole. A delivery driver. Not for her. For the former owner. The old lady, Mrs. Gable. Amelia didn't even know her.

She quickly unlocked the deadbolt and slowly opened the door. Her mouth felt dry. The driver was already holding the box out to her. "For Gable?" He had a friendly face, a bland face. She tried to keep her voice steady, but it came out a little too loud.

"Yes, uh, she... she doesn't live here anymore." She wanted to slam the door. She wanted to take the package and hide it. "Just... leave it there, please." She pointed at the floor. He shrugged, placed the box down, and left. She watched him go, a knot of unease tightening in her chest.

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