anxious - Story 7609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt suffocating. The air was thick with the scent of old paper and dust. Rebecca stared at the photographs, her jaw tight. Her mother, the paragon of virtue, the perfect woman, had told her a specific story of her life. But the photos told a different truth.

She saw images of her mother with different men, in different settings. She felt an overwhelming pressure in her chest. A wave of nausea washed over her. She felt the urge to cry, and run, and hide.

Her hands shook as she closed the album. What was real? What was a lie?

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