anxious - Story 7658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around Sophie as she stared at the screen. She had sent a text of encouragement to a friend before a big audition. But instead of going to her friend, it was in a group chat with the judges.

A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. She imagined the judges reading her message, a message filled with slang and supportive emojis. She was mortified.

She ran a hand through her hair, and her fingers got tangled. Was it over for her?

She wanted to call her friend to apologize, but she knew that would only make things worse. She stared at the screen, and the world began to spin.

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