anxious - Story 7509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down her spine as she caught sight of the fluffy white tail bobbing in her garden. She hated it when the small dog, Snowball, escaped. She didn’t like making a fuss. Her heart began to race.

She pressed her palms against her thighs, grounding herself. She took a breath. Then another. She had to stay calm.

The thought of dealing with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, with their overly cheerful demeanor and their endless excuses, turned her stomach. She pictured the scene. Her frustration would be met with insincere apologies and a continued pattern of neglect.

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