anxious - Story 7849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and the sound shattered the already strained silence. It was Mrs. Rodriguez, again. The incessant dance classes. She should have known better, she thought, sinking to the floor.

Her vision swam. She hated confrontation. The thought of explaining herself, of being judged, filled her with dread.

She couldn't bring herself to answer. She let the phone ring, the sound growing more and more insistent with each unanswered call. She just wanted to 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