anxious - Story 7622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya felt a flutter in her chest when she spotted the small "followed you" notification. Her history teacher, Mr. Davies, was now part of her digital world. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. It was as if her online presence had suddenly become a public performance.

She sat at her kitchen table, staring blankly at the screen. She had a half-eaten bowl of cereal in front of her. She really wished she hadn't posted that video of her lip-syncing to a pop song last week. She felt like it was going to be the end of her.

Her palms felt slick with moisture. The thought of Mr. Davies viewing her stories brought an unfamiliar discomfort. She pictured him, glasses perched on his nose, scrolling through her feed. What was he thinking? A sense of unease filled 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