anxious - Story 7629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she saw the familiar blue checkmark next to Mrs. Miller's name on her Twitter feed. Her history teacher was now following her. She felt like she wanted to just be alone.

Clara stared at her timeline, feeling a rising sense of panic. She'd retweeted some things. She felt so vulnerable now. She imagined Mrs. Miller reading all her tweets.

She got up and started pacing. The walls were closing in, a constricting feeling around her chest. The world felt too big, too exposed. She craved escape, a way to rewind time.

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