anxious - Story 7879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her artwork was being sold on the open market, and the email had just landed. It was a scam. The art had been pulled off social media without her consent. It was everywhere. She stared at the screen, heart racing. What had she done?

The room around her began to spin. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She gripped the edge of her desk, seeking something to ground her. She needed to do something. Anything.

She slammed the laptop shut. She felt the urge to pace, to move, to burn off the restless energy coursing through her. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her fingers.

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