anxious - Story 7841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding started again, a rhythmic thudding that seemed to vibrate through the floorboards and up her legs. Sarah froze, hand hovering over the volume control on the television. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat matching the noise. Her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, was going to be furious.

She chewed on her thumbnail, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she’d started. The incessant tapping echoed in her ears, each beat amplifying her unease. She needed to do something.

Pushing herself up, her legs felt heavy, as if weighted down. She walked slowly towards the door, stopping before reaching for the knob. Her hand trembled and she took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

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