anxious - Story 7824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall felt stifling to Clara. Each tap of her foot echoed in her ears. She hadn't slept well in days. She felt a knot in her stomach. She had meticulously composed every note, every chord. The opening night performance felt imminent, and she was terrified.

After the pre-show reception, her rival, Marcus, approached her. He had been so sure of his win. He looked pale. "Clara," he began, his voice tight. "I need to talk."

"I know," he confessed, "our compositions are... surprisingly aligned." He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "It's, well, unnerving, isn't it?"

Clara found she could not meet his eyes. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt as though she might suffocate.

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