anxious - Story 7587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, dimly lit bar felt suffocating. Amelia traced the condensation on her glass, her gaze fixed on the stage. The band was setting up, tuning their instruments. She could barely manage a breath. She wasn't sure why she'd come.

She'd stumbled across the band's video online. They were a local act, known for their eclectic mix of covers. She hated the feeling in her stomach. The song they were about to perform was hers, or at least it had been. She'd given up on music a long time ago.

The singer stepped up to the microphone, and the opening chords filled the room. Amelia felt her pulse quicken. The arrangement was different, the tempo faster, the lyrics… she swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. She gripped her glass.

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