anxious - Story 7815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Each floor felt like a step deeper into the past. Her vision swam, the lights blurring. Maya gripped the handrail tightly, nails digging into the metal. The elevator doors opened. She stepped out, her legs unsteady.

She could still feel the phantom sting of the taunts, the sting of being constantly undermined. The idea of revisiting those memories with the person responsible, with Alex, felt like a punishment. A horrible, unavoidable punishment.

She walked towards the door, her pace faltering. The knot in her stomach tightened with each step. She couldn't breathe properly. She knocked on the door, her knuckles white.

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