anxious - Story 7923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her hand, the hot liquid threatening to slosh over the rim. Rain lashed against the window of the cafe, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. The appointment loomed, a dark cloud on her horizon. This was the sixth consultation, and the weight of the unknown had become almost unbearable.

Across the small table, a man picked at a pastry, seemingly oblivious to her internal struggle. He glanced up, catching her eye, and offered a weak smile.

"Rough weather, huh?" he said.

She managed a forced laugh, but the sound caught in her throat. She needed something to distract her, anything to quiet the turmoil.

“You waiting for someone?” she asked, hoping the conversation would distract her from her trepidation.

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