anxious - Story 7619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself meticulously straightening the already perfect napkin on her lap, a repetitive action that did little to calm her nerves. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips, as if they were buzzing with electricity. The thought of standing up in front of everyone filled her with a sense of dread.

She tried to focus on the positive, on how much her parents would appreciate the gesture. But the positive thoughts felt distant, overshadowed by the looming task. The feeling inside her was awful, like a bird trying to escape a cage.

The emcee announced her name, and she felt her stomach drop. This was 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