anxious - Story 7874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had spread like wildfire. Sarah, staring at her laptop screen, could feel the world closing in on her. Her digital art, stolen and plastered across a billboard in the city center, was a betrayal. She felt lightheaded. It was supposed to be a secret. She'd kept it hidden, not wanting anyone to see her work.

She clicked the browser window closed. She kept breathing in and out. She imagined a hundred pairs of eyes scrutinizing her art, judging her flaws. Her heart skipped a beat, then another. She had to shut down.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of her desk. The small space of her room began to feel suffocating. She felt like she was a bug under a magnifying glass, and someone was about to burn 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