anxious - Story 7717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, typed words on the notice blurred with tears that formed in Eleanor's eyes. She pressed her lips together, fighting to remain composed. "Violation of terms… vacate within thirty days." She felt a tremor run through her body.

She walked to the worn armchair, the one she loved, and sat down. The familiar cushions offered no comfort. She felt a constriction in her chest, making each breath laboured. The room felt suddenly foreign, the possessions around her mocking reminders of her current vulnerability.

She looked at her hands, trembling slightly in her lap. How could this be happening? She felt a growing sense of panic, a suffocating weight that threatened to crush her. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the reality of the situation.

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