anxious - Story 7910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a betrayal. Amelia had poured her heart and soul into this school. The announcement filled her with a sense of disorientation, and she began shaking. She couldn’t seem to stand still. She walked the halls of the student union, her pace quickening, her mind a whirlwind of conflicting emotions.

She felt the prickling sensation of tears behind her eyes. Her vision blurred. She hated the feeling, that feeling of everything collapsing around her. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight it.

She stopped abruptly in front of a window, staring out at the campus. She needed to be alone. She needed to process. She slowly started walking toward the door, feeling disconnected from her surroundings. The world no longer seemed real.

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