anxious - Story 7479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small and unremarkable, resting on the welcome mat. The name on the label read "Mr. Theodore Black," the former resident of the flat. She had heard rumours about him, whispers of a messy divorce and a hasty departure.

She didn't want to get involved. She was already behind on her deadlines. Her jaw ached with tension. She tried to recall her breathing exercises.

Her gaze kept darting back to the package. The silence of the hallway felt oppressive. She took a step towards it, then another, her movements slow and deliberate. She felt as though she was wading through water. Her heart hammered 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