anxious - Story 7693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air conditioning in the meeting room felt like an icy hand on her skin. Emily sat ramrod straight, her fingers interlaced so tightly they ached. Across the mahogany table, David, his rival for the promotion, was casually leaning back, a picture of serene focus.

Her own presentation was prepped and perfect, the slides a testament to hours of meticulous work. But as the moment of truth loomed, she felt a tightness grip her chest. A wave of dizziness rolled over her.

"Emily, you alright?" her supervisor asked, his brow furrowed with concern. She forced a smile, but her voice came out as a thin, reedy whisper. She nodded, her throat suddenly constricted. She wanted to scream.

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