anxious - Story 7626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notification on his phone, the words swimming before his eyes. "Ms. Rodriguez is now following you on Snapchat." Liam pressed his lips into a thin line. He wanted to throw his phone across the room.

He slumped back on his bed, feeling a wave of nausea. He'd sent some pretty unfiltered snaps, mostly to his friends. Now, his teacher had access to them. He felt a need to disappear.

He closed his eyes, imagining Ms. Rodriguez’s face. He could feel sweat gathering on his brow. The implications of this felt enormous, like a weight. He felt trapped.

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