anxious - Story 7636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench felt cold and hard beneath Martha. She reread the letter, the words a blunt instrument against her heart. It was written to her childhood best friend, a friend she’d betrayed and hadn’t seen since.

She felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead, and her vision seemed to narrow. The surrounding landscape, normally vibrant with life, seemed to fade, as if viewed through a distorted lens. Birds chirped, but she didn’t hear them. Everything seemed to be screaming.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the flood of memories, the guilt that clawed at her insides. It was consuming. She felt a need to disappear.

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