anxious - Story 7483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you alright, sweetie?" her sister asked, her voice soft in her ear. Emily jumped, startled. She hadn't realized her sister was even there. She forced a smile. “Fine, just fine.” Her throat felt tight.

The house loomed, a skeletal frame against the grey sky. It had been her haven. Now, it was a hollow shell. She felt a tingling sensation in her fingertips, and her legs felt suddenly weak. The sound of the bulldozer’s engine made her teeth ache. She didn't want to see it fall.

Her sister squeezed her hand. "Come on, let's grab some coffee. It's cold out here." Emily nodded, relief flooding through her.

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