anxious - Story 7785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photos wouldn't stop flashing before her eyes. The kitchen, the living room, her old bedroom. The house had been painted a different color, the landscaping was all wrong. It was a stranger's home now.

She replayed the online tour over and over, each time feeling more disoriented and out of control. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the desk, a constant drumming against the silence. She felt a growing pressure behind her eyes, the beginning of a headache.

She knew she would not be sleeping tonight. Her mind reeled with thoughts. She needed to do something, anything, to break free from the mental loop. She stood and began to pace.

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