anxious - Story 7845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of pots and pans upstairs seemed to reverberate through her own quiet kitchen. She imagined Mr. Petrov, her neighbor, glaring down at her. He was always complaining.

She gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles turning white. The noise seemed to amplify the internal chaos churning inside her. She wasn't sure how to handle this.

Her shoulders slumped. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she couldn't. Instead, she took a shaky breath, trying to calm the overwhelming feeling that threatened to consume her.

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