anxious - Story 7565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of facing a group of people felt like trying to swim through concrete. Sarah had arranged a small gathering at her house. But when it turned out that Emily was hosting a karaoke night, Sarah was immediately concerned.

Her carefully curated playlist of indie rock anthems suddenly felt insufficient. She stared at the overflowing ashtray on the table, a sign of her unease. The aroma of stale tobacco filled the air. She wanted to scream.

She slumped onto the sofa, picking at a loose thread on the cushion. The thought of everyone having fun at Emily's, singing and laughing, made her stomach churn. Her hands were ice cold.

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