anxious - Story 7927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were clammy, her heart a frantic drummer against her ribs. The doctor’s office felt like a sterile prison, the white walls closing in. The ticking clock on the wall was a cruel metronome, each tick a hammer blow. The prospect of the results filled her with a sense of unease.

She sat opposite a man, a stranger. He seemed to be as tense as her, his leg twitching. He looked at her, his eyes filled with a recognition that startled her.

“I hate this place,” he muttered, his voice hoarse.

She nodded. The shared sentiment was a small, fragile bond in the face of what was to come.

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