anxious - Story 7488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive there had taken a lifetime. Every mile felt like a mile of torture. Now she was here. She could see the house, stripped, and half-gutted. The sight nearly sent her to the ground. She felt a burning sensation, starting in her chest and spreading outward.

She’d spent years avoiding this day, years clinging to the illusion of its permanence. Now, there was no escaping the truth. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone. She needed to do *something*.

She called her mother, but she let the call go to voicemail.

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