anxious - Story 7827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt oppressive, the air thick with the scent of old paper. Eleanor felt lightheaded. She was supposed to deliver her presentation. She had always felt secure, but her confidence was now eroding.

A familiar face. It was Mr. Henderson, a fellow historian who'd been working on a similar project. "Eleanor," he said softly, his brow furrowed, "have you seen my research? It's awfully similar to yours." He shifted nervously from foot to foot.

She felt like she was going to be sick. Her mouth was dry. She could barely manage a nod. She wished she could disappear.

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