anxious - Story 7934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell. Sarah jumped, nearly knocking over her coffee mug. She hadn't been expecting anyone. Her throat felt tight.

A cheerful delivery driver handed her a bouquet of sunflowers, their bright faces mocking her. No card. Just a bunch of sunlit flowers.

She backed away from the door, a wave of nausea washing over her. They were beautiful, but terrifying. Each bloom seemed to pulse with an unknown message.

She retreated inside, shutting and locking the door. She checked the locks. Then she checked them again. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She had to sit down. She had to think.

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