anxious - Story 7920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of more noise, more activity, caused a tightness in her chest. Maria watched from her kitchen window as Mr. Johnson walked across her lawn. The thought of this man's request about the pine tree left her wanting to find a dark corner and curl up.

Her gaze darted around the room, as if seeking an escape route. Her hands fidgeted with the edge of her apron. The world outside seemed to amplify all the chaos already inside of her.

She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing he would go away, that the problem would resolve itself. The footsteps on her porch were a thunderclap in the sudden quiet.

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