anxious - Story 7542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah chewed on her thumbnail, the ragged edge catching on her teeth. The email notification – "New friend request from Lily_Star_99" – had sent a jolt of alarm through her. It was definitely her daughter, Lily, but the profile picture showed a girl with purple streaks in her hair and an unfamiliar pierced lip.

Her heart thumped against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the quiet of her study. She felt a knot forming in her stomach, a tight, twisting coil. She ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down stray strands, each movement quick and jerky.

She pictured Lily, vibrant and happy, but also secretive. The possibility of something hidden, something she didn't know, gnawed at her. She logged onto the profile, her cursor hovering over the "Accept" button. She quickly backed away, needing a breath.

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