anxious - Story 7742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *hell*," Sarah muttered, the word catching in her throat. The sight of the fallen maple, a massive, gnarled finger pointing accusingly at her house, stole the air from her lungs. She’d always loved that tree, admired its fiery autumn display. Now, its twisted form threatened her fence. Her heart was in her throat.

She clutched her chest, feeling a prickling sensation spread across her skin. The thought of the insurance claim, the endless paperwork, made her head spin. She’d just finished remodeling the kitchen; now this.

She walked towards the door, then turned back, unable to move. She needed to look at it, but didn't want to. She went to the window to confirm the worst. It was all so very complicated.

Her breath hitched. She had to take a few deep breaths before opening the door.

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