anxious - Story 7654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," whispered Chloe, her voice barely audible. She'd meant to send a photo of her cat, perched majestically on the windowsill, to her sister. Instead, it was currently winging its way to her grandmother.

She quickly unlocked her phone. She then immediately realised she could not unsend it. She had a picture of her cat, with her head resting on her leg. This was the same picture that she had been about to caption, “I hate my new boss.”

Chloe grabbed a cushion, burying her face in it. She pictured the judgement in her grandmother's eyes. How could she recover from this?

The silence was unbearable. It felt like an eternity before her phone pinged with a notification. Chloe hesitated, then slowly raised the phone.

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