anxious - Story 7487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived a week ago. The final notice. The reality. Now, standing on the curb, the house, the physical embodiment of the memories, was no more. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against her bones. She hugged herself tightly, as if that would somehow hold everything together.

The demolition crew were efficient. She had prepared herself for slow destruction, but the structure started to groan, then crumble rapidly. Dust flew everywhere, obscuring her vision and making her choke on air.

She wanted to scream.

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