anxious - Story 7474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, large and awkwardly shaped, lay in the hallway, a physical manifestation of everything Sarah was trying to avoid. She had a mountain of things to do, and opening a box that didn't belong to her wasn't on the list. The label read "Mr. Bartholomew Finch." She'd never heard the name before.

She paced back and forth, the same section of floorboards worn thin by her agitation. The wood groaned in protest. She kept thinking about her upcoming job interview. She needed to look perfect. This stupid box just felt like another obstacle.

She walked towards the door, then turned around. Her fingers found the edge of the cardboard. A tiny whimper escaped her lips. What if it was important? What if someone was expecting it? She took a deep breath, trying to slow her hammering heart.

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