anxious - Story 7819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the involuntary tremor in her hands that gave him away. He noticed it. It was a dead giveaway. Emma fiddled with the strap of her handbag, her gaze darting around the room, avoiding eye contact. She couldn’t seem to stay still.

She remembered the constant feeling of being watched, judged, belittled. Now, she was supposed to trust this person, this former adversary, with her deepest fears? It felt like a cruel joke.

The door opened. Robert stood there, a professional smile plastered on his face. Emma felt a flush creep up her neck. Her voice caught in her throat when she tried to speak.

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