anxious - Story 7767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate was a museum of memories, each corner filled with a past she was hesitant to revisit. The cedar, planted to mark her parents’ anniversary, was missing.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He gripped the wrought-iron fence for support, his vision blurring. His hands shook uncontrollably. He felt a desperate need to retreat, to escape the suffocating weight of this new emptiness.

He swallowed hard, trying to regain control. His stomach churned. He closed his eyes, battling the surge of emotion, and breathed in the scent of cut grass and damp earth.

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