anxious - Story 7893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Sarah reread the feedback, the biting criticisms stinging her like tiny needles. Her vision blurred, and the print on the page swam. A wave of heat washed over her, making her cheeks flush crimson. She felt a pressing need to escape, to disappear into the vast expanse of the library, where the stacks of books might offer some solace. But even the thought of facing the judgmental stares of her classmates held her captive in place.

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