anxious - Story 7787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a text message from her brother, a simple link to a real estate listing. Her breath hitched. Her stomach plummeted. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She immediately opened the link, and her heart began to race. The front door looked unfamiliar, the landscaping alien. The house had been modified and updated. Her pulse accelerated as she scrolled through the pictures.

She felt the urge to cry, to scream. She sank into her chair, her body suddenly heavy. She felt a rising pressure in her chest.

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