anxious - Story 7605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was damp and smelled of mildew, but Amelia barely noticed. The old photographs in her hands offered a stark contrast to the family narrative she'd always known. Her great-aunt, a woman painted as a spinster, was shown in several photos in the arms of different lovers.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, each beat a frantic rhythm. The discovery unsettled her deeply. Amelia felt a profound unease creeping across her skin. The truth, in this case, felt cold and unsettling.

She set down the photographs. She should leave. Now. But her feet felt glued to the floor. The weight of the revelations pressed down on her.

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