anxious - Story 7886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this a surprise,” she said to herself as she saw the contractor’s truck parked outside Mrs. Hawthorne’s house. She had always found Mrs. Hawthorne a little odd, always wearing those eccentric hats, but she had never suspected anything like this.

A sudden, unpleasant warmth crept up her neck. She had been struggling to keep up with the mortgage payments. A growing sense of unease filled her. She felt like a small boat, adrift at sea while the Hawthorne’s yacht sailed gracefully by.

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