anxious - Story 7670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man beside her was humming a tune, oblivious. Jessica felt a cold dread creep into her stomach. She stared at the numbers, desperate to see any change.

She clenched her jaw. She thought of all the things she had to do, all of her obligations. The pressure, the weight, it was all too much. She wished she had never gotten on the elevator.

Her vision seemed to blur. She couldn't breathe. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sensations, but the feeling was relentless. She felt trapped, and the walls were closing in on her.

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