anxious - Story 7644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. Amelia stared at the floor indicator, each number a slow, agonizing tick of the clock. Her hands were clammy, and she surreptitiously rubbed them on her skirt. The feeling in her stomach was akin to freefalling.

She had overheard the conversation between the CEO and the CFO yesterday, the one about the potential acquisition. She hadn't been able to make out the details, but the tone, the hushed secrecy... it had been enough.

The doors opened, and she stepped out, immediately heading for the water cooler. She needed to focus, to try and not let the feeling of trepidation consume her. She took a long, slow drink, trying to will herself to calm down.

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