anxious - Story 7709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer jammed again, adding to the growing list of frustrations for Jessica. She had deadlines to meet, reports to file, and a boss who was constantly breathing down her neck. She massaged her temples, trying to ward off a headache.

"Did you used to go to Camp Willow Creek?" asked a cheerful voice from the breakroom. It was Tom, from accounting, who was rarely in her department. Her hands clenched.

Jessica turned slowly. "Yes, I did," she replied, her voice flat. She really wanted to be left alone.

Tom's eyes sparkled. "That place was awesome! I always loved the arts and crafts. It was such a great experience." Jessica nodded, her jaw tight. She just wanted to get through the day.

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