anxious - Story 7516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just be yourself,” his mother had said, but now, standing in front of Coach Davis’ office, those words seemed useless. Emily picked at a loose thread on her jacket, her fingers clumsy. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

She kept replaying the race in her head, the stumble, the slow recovery. She felt the sting of humiliation all over again.

She knew this was going to happen. The door swung open and the coach gestured inside. Her legs felt weak. She took a step forward.

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