anxious - Story 7950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the manuscript felt heavy in Emily's hands. She hadn’t slept since the discovery. She sat in the car, ready to leave, but she wasn’t going anywhere. She could feel every muscle in her body tense.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. She saw the image of her boyfriend, Tom, and knew there would be no simple way to resolve this. The thought of confronting him felt like a monumental task.

She put the car in park and looked at her phone. She felt the urge to call her friend, but then she didn't want to explain. She just wanted to disappear. She turned off the car and went inside.

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