anxious - Story 7625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message popped up in Sarah's inbox: "Your math teacher, Mr. Garcia, is now following you on Facebook." A sense of dread settled over her. She ran her hands through her hair. She had a lot of memes on there.

She glanced at her phone, her fingers trembling slightly. She’d been avoiding her schoolwork. She really wasn't in the mood to do it now. The thought of him seeing her posts, judging her, made her tense.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She had a feeling she knew why he had followed her. She hadn't finished her homework for the past month. She felt a need to change her entire persona.

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