anxious - Story 7499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the laboratory was deafening. Sarah stared at the schematic for her new medical device. Another company already had the patent. The air conditioning was failing. It was getting hot and stuffy. She felt as though she was in a box. The plans were useless.

She slammed her fist onto the workbench, the blow echoing in the emptiness. She couldn't let it consume her. Her hands were shaking as she started to methodically pack up her things. The walls seemed to move in on 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