anxious - Story 7843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat as the knock echoed through the quiet apartment. It was the building superintendent, Mr. Garcia, and she knew the reason. She had just finished a lively dance class recording. The thought of facing him filled her with a sense of dread.

She couldn’t meet his eyes, avoiding his gaze as he outlined the new restrictions. Her hands were clammy, and she felt a knot tighten in her chest. She mumbled a response, her voice barely a whisper.

After he left, she slammed the door. She couldn't keep her focus. She found herself pacing the length of her living room, her mind racing. What would she do now?

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