anxious - Story 7476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Not again," Maya muttered to herself. This was the third package in as many weeks, all addressed to "Harold Abernathy." The name was foreign to her. She hadn't even met her neighbours. She had more important things to consider, she told herself.

She was due to pick up her son from school soon. The clock on the wall mocked her with each passing second. The rhythmic ticking felt like a drumbeat, steadily increasing in tempo.

She wanted to call her landlord. She wanted to scream. She took a quick, shallow breath. She should just take it inside. She picked up the package.

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