anxious - Story 7656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Blast,” muttered Maya, her teeth grinding together. She’d been texting her friend, complaining about her boyfriend, detailing all of his annoying habits. A simple tap. One wrong tap. And now that list of complaints was on its way to, not her friend, but… him.

She felt a sharp pain in her temples. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing pulse. She imagined the way her boyfriend would react. His hurt expression. The angry silence. The inevitable argument.

She wanted to scream. She had to fix this.

She attempted to come up with a solution. She took another breath. She felt the sudden urge to run.

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