anxious - Story 7924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile smell of the hospital, a blend of antiseptic and something indefinably clinical, made her want to bolt. She was at the worst hospital in the county, and the longer she was there, the more her chest began to feel like a tightly-wound spring. Every cough or distant emergency siren set her on edge.

He was sitting across from her, his leg bouncing in a relentless rhythm. His face was pale, his eyes wide. It was a mirror image of how she felt.

She saw him take a deep breath, and then exhale slowly, trying to compose himself.

"You here for...the usual?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper.

She nodded, unable to speak, the information about to be revealed weighing heavy.

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