anxious - Story 7505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children's laughter outside was instantly muted as the sound of a bounding animal pierced through the noise. Her hand flew to her throat. Spot, the dalmatian, was happily demolishing her daughter's sandcastle.

She felt a tremor run through her. She was a single mom, stretched too thin. She needed this time in the yard, she needed the kids to be safe, she needed her things to stay in place.

She felt the familiar pressure building behind her eyes. Confronting Mrs. Rodriguez, who was always so busy, always distracted, felt like trying to swim upstream. The dog's happy tail was mocking 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