anxious - Story 7568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick and heavy. Maria ran her fingers through her hair. The thought of her low-key wine and cheese night being up against John's live music event felt unbearable. She had put so much effort into planning hers. The thought of it all going to waste was unnerving.

She kept double-checking the guest list, hoping for a surge of RSVPs. The silence of the phone was deafening. She felt the urge to throw something across the room.

She paced the length of her tiny kitchen, muttering under her breath. The carefully arranged cheese board in the refrigerator seemed less and less appealing with each passing moment. She couldn't understand why this had to happen.

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