anxious - Story 7867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty classroom. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She couldn't shake the prickling sensation on her skin. A gift. An olive branch from Robert Green, a student who had always seemed to view her with a mixture of resentment and defiance.

She glanced at the clock: 3:00 p.m. Her hands trembled as she reached for the package, her fingers fumbling with the neatly tied ribbon. His expression… the way he spoke… he had the feeling that she had failed him.

Her shoulders slumped. It was like she was about to face a firing squad.

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