anxious - Story 7769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her steps quickened as she approached the property. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she came closer. The enormous oak, where she had spent hours as a child, was gone.

A cold dread spread through her veins, freezing her limbs. She couldn't understand. She took a sharp, shallow breath, trying to calm the sudden tremor in her hands. The air around her suddenly felt thin and difficult to breathe.

She felt a desperate need to know who had done this. She started to pace, her feet carrying her back and forth, as she searched for answers.

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