anxious - Story 7539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Maria gripped the table in the coffee shop, her knuckles white. The scholarship that had promised her freedom, now ripped away. The barista called out her name, but it felt distant, irrelevant. She forced herself to take a sip of her coffee, the lukewarm liquid doing nothing to soothe the tightness in her stomach.

Her gaze kept flicking towards the entrance, towards the outside world, to escape. She felt a burning need to be anywhere else, away from the judgmental gaze of the other students. She stood up abruptly, pulling her bag tight, and rushed out, barely registering the door slamming shut behind 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