anxious - Story 7918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument with her husband was still fresh in her mind, like a wound. Claire could hardly speak when their neighbor, Mr. Harrison, presented the issue of the overgrown birch. Every word felt like a personal accusation.

Her stomach churned. The memory of the fight, the raised voices, the accusations—it played on repeat in her mind, exacerbating the unease. She crossed her arms, a shield against the world.

She swallowed hard, trying to keep her voice steady, but it wavered. She was so tired of this, this constant tension, this feeling of walking on eggshells. She just wanted it all to stop.

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