anxious - Story 7884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from the HOA president, mentioning the upcoming neighborhood fundraiser, sent a jolt of discomfort through her. Sarah had seen the new pool being built in Mr. Peterson's backyard. His casual friendliness now felt like a calculated performance, a way to maintain the facade of normalcy.

She found herself avoiding his gaze when she saw him tending his roses, her pulse quickening when he waved. The idea of competing with his generosity, his obvious means, was deeply unsettling. The fundraiser felt like a test, and she knew she wouldn't measure up.

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