anxious - Story 7497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before Maya's eyes. Her digital art project, designed to help children in under-resourced areas, was already in the hands of another company. She swallowed hard, struggling to keep a grip on herself. She didn’t know how to move forward.

She gripped her purse and felt the sharp edges of her keys digging into her palm. She closed her eyes. The crowd around her was starting to feel like a cage. She couldn't breathe. She needed to be alone, to think, to... something.

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