anxious - Story 7527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock her. The opening night of her friend’s exhibition, supposed to be a celebration, was now a trial. Olivia couldn't enjoy the art, the music, or the company. All she could think about was the article she'd read earlier that day about the accusations leveled against her hero, the painter, Silas Black.

She took a long, shaky breath, her stomach churning. She felt like she was trapped in a box, the walls closing in. The room buzzed with the chatter of other guests, but she heard nothing. All she could see were his stolen brushstrokes, the evidence of his creative dishonesty.

Olivia reached for a glass of champagne, her hand trembling. The bubbles felt like tiny pinpricks on her tongue. She needed to leave, to escape the suffocating reality of the situation. Her throat felt tight, and she could barely swallow.

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