anxious - Story 7783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at precisely 3:00 PM, just as she was making her afternoon coffee. Her hands trembled, causing a spill. She cursed under her breath and scrambled to clean it up, her movements quick and frantic. The subject line, "New Listing Alert," burned a hole through her.

She tried to ignore it, to focus on the tasks at hand. But the words echoed in her mind. “Childhood Home… For Sale.” She couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom. She stared out the window, her vision blurring as tears welled in her eyes.

Later, she found herself pacing her living room, her steps erratic and uneven. She picked up the phone, then slammed it back down. She needed to know, but she didn't want to know. It was a paradox.

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