anxious - Story 7560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the kitchen table. Across from her, Oliver was showing her pictures of tiny teacup pigs. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was as if her world was about to be turned upside down.

She liked her life the way it was. Her apartment was her refuge, quiet and serene. She savored the silence, the clean lines, the absence of any unnecessary chaos. The thought of a pig, a creature that would root and wallow and make a mess, made her skin crawl.

She felt a strange tingling in her hands and feet. The room seemed to be closing in on her. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.

"Are you… absolutely sure this is a good idea?" she asked, her voice trembling. The question hung in the air, unanswered, as she felt a weight pressing down on her chest.

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