anxious - Story 7558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but Emily couldn't bring herself to take a bite. Her appetite had vanished the moment Alex mentioned getting a rabbit. She found herself picking at the crumbs on the counter, her mind racing. Every surface, every item in the apartment had a purpose, and now they had a creature who would disrupt everything.

She hated the thought of things being out of her control. Their current routine, their peaceful evenings, the quiet mornings… it was all perfect, and now it was under threat. The idea of the rabbit gnawing on wires, leaving droppings, and hopping around the apartment made her head spin.

She chewed her lip, her eyes darting around the room, taking in every detail. She felt a growing sense of panic, the way she would before a storm, a feeling of unease and dread.

"Will it… chew the furniture?" she finally asked, her voice barely audible.

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