anxious - Story 7507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shrill yipping of the Pomeranian grated on her nerves. She flinched, even though she was inside, safely away from the potential damage. The little dog, Peanut, was making another break for it.

She felt a cold wave wash over her, a deep chill that had nothing to do with the weather. She was already mentally preparing herself for the conversation with the owners. They were always so…nice. Too nice.

She could barely breathe. The thought of having to explain the situation again, of having to repeat herself, of asking for some basic responsibility, was crushing her. It was too much.

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