anxious - Story 7638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was deafening in the silence of the apartment. Sarah scanned the letter, a letter from her youth, written to her future self, filled with grand ambitions she’d abandoned long ago.

She twisted the corner of the paper, the action a nervous habit. The bright light from the window seemed to glare, highlighting every imperfection in the room. The air was heavy, thick with the scent of old things.

She rose from her chair, pacing in the cramped space, unable to find a moment's peace. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

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