anxious - Story 7533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had gone blurry around her. Sarah stared at the notice, the bold black letters mocking her with their blatant message. The scholarship, the one that had given her a future, had been a mix-up. Her carefully constructed plans, her dreams of medical school, seemed to be crumbling around her. She found herself clutching the paper so hard her knuckles were white.

A wave of heat surged through her, starting at her neck and spreading downwards, making her skin prickle. She blinked rapidly, her vision wavering. Her hands shook uncontrollably as she fumbled to put the notice back into her bag. Every thought seemed to be tangled and knotted, impossible to untangle. The sheer unfairness of it all threatened to overwhelm her.

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