anxious - Story 7850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the accusation hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. The landlord's stern voice echoed in her mind. Mr. Evans from next door had lodged another complaint. This time about the piano.

She couldn’t meet his eyes, staring fixedly at her hands. The room began to spin. She felt a wave of nausea crash over her.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, leaning over the sink. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to clear her head, trying to get away from the thoughts, the feelings. The shame. The guilt.

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