anxious - Story 7869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the evening was broken only by the rapid thumping of her heart. She found herself avoiding the package on the kitchen table, circling it as though it were a dangerous animal. From Kevin, a student who had been a whirlwind of energy and… sometimes trouble.

She found herself making and then remaking her dinner, pouring and repouring her glass of wine, anything to avoid confronting the reality of the gift. She had hoped to forget all the headaches he had caused her.

She sat at the table and stared at it. His face floated in front of her. She couldn’t bring herself to open it.

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