anxious - Story 7600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood in her kitchen, frozen. The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, mocking her. She had been waiting for this moment, but she wasn't ready.

She'd poured her heart and soul into this project, and the thought of rejection was like a physical blow. She couldn't feel her hands or her feet. She leaned against the counter, suddenly weak.

She took a breath and opened the email. The words swam before her eyes, and she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She had to close it. She felt a burning need to escape.

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