anxious - Story 7669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She kept glancing at the emergency button, then away. Her chest was tight. She felt the urge to pace. She tried to remain still, but her foot tapped a frantic rhythm against the metal floor.

"Is anyone… uncomfortable?" she asked, her voice barely audible. No response. The silence was unnerving.

She closed her eyes and saw all of her responsibilities waiting for her. All the appointments she had to reschedule, all of the calls she had to return. A wave of dread washed over her.

She tried to take deep breaths, but the air felt heavy and thick. She felt a growing need to scream, to break free. It was almost unbearable.

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