anxious - Story 7485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, clutched in her trembling hands, depicted her younger brother and herself, beaming, sticky with ice cream, in front of the front porch. The porch…the porch was gone. The first piece of the house to be claimed by the claw. Her vision blurred, and she blinked, trying to clear the mist.

Her jaw clenched, fighting back the wave of tears. She had to stay strong. For her brother. He was on his way now, he should be here soon. But the thought of him seeing it like this made her stomach churn.

Her phone buzzed. It was him. “I’m here,” he texted.

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