anxious - Story 7739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth ached. She'd been grinding them since the news dropped. She could feel the muscles in her jaw clenching. She was sitting in a park with Olivia, the two of them under a large shady tree. The sky was the perfect blue. Birds sang. The perfect image of a summer afternoon. But the perfection only amplified the wrongness of everything.

She tried to keep the conversation light, to smile and nod, but the effort felt exhausting. She kept looking at her hands, as if she could control them by sheer force of will.

She felt a desperate need to say something, to fix it, to make it all a bad dream. She couldn't.

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