anxious - Story 7549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold shiver run down my spine as I scrolled through the account. It wasn't just the words, but the way my daughter, Emma, presented herself. It was… different. And I didn't recognize her.

My fingers trembled as I clicked on a picture of her with some other kids, all of them wearing heavy makeup and dark clothes. The room seemed to grow smaller. I felt a pressure building in my head.

I had to know more, I had to understand what was going on. But the thought of confronting her filled me with a deep dread. I felt like I was standing at the edge of a cliff, about to take a terrifying leap.

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