anxious - Story 7687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant sound of clacking keyboards filled Amelia with a sense of dread. The once beloved hobby of code-writing was now her daughter, Iris’s whole world. Amelia avoided the home office, preferring the chaos of the kitchen.

She started leaving the house more often, finding excuses to run errands, anything to escape the digital world Iris inhabited.

She’d started to over-explain things, to repeat herself, as though she was trying to prove something to someone. She would glance anxiously towards Iris' door.

One evening, Iris asked for help debugging a program. Amelia had to politely refuse. The thought of getting too involved made her feel strange.

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