anxious - Story 7607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the dusty window, illuminating the unsettling details in the antique album. Emily's grandmother always spoke of her struggles, of her hard life. The pictures offered a different perspective.

There, on page after page, were images of extravagant parties, of opulent gowns and a life of privilege she hadn't known. Emily's breath hitched, feeling as though she was being suffocated.

Her vision blurred. She felt a sharp pain in her chest. She needed to know more, but at the same time, she wanted to slam the album shut and pretend she hadn’t seen any of it.

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