anxious - Story 7519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the quiet that got to Maria, the way the coach had stopped calling her name during drills. The absence of critique was worse than any criticism. She sat in the dugout, tracing patterns in the dirt with her cleats.

She'd felt the shift in his demeanor, the subtle changes in his tone of voice.

She felt the tears welling up in her eyes. She wanted to cry, but she couldn't let anyone see. She felt like her heart was going to break. She stood up to leave.

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