anxious - Story 7813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The peeling paint in the hallway seemed to mock her. Sarah hugged her arms to her chest, feeling a chill despite the warm afternoon sun streaming through the window. Her heart thumped against her ribs like a trapped bird. She considered bolting, running back to the safety of her car, but the thought of facing her current situation without help was more terrifying.

She recalled the way Kevin used to corner her after school, the way he'd laugh, the way he'd make her feel small. Now, she was supposed to confide in him? The notion was ludicrous.

She was summoned into the office. Kevin, looking more composed than she was, gestured to a chair. Sarah managed a weak smile, but her mind felt like it was sprinting in place, unable to escape the past.

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