anxious - Story 7977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unexpected visit from Ms. Rodriguez came as she was meticulously pruning her rose bushes. She felt a sharp prick of agitation, a tightening in her chest. The doorbell had been a harsh interruption.

"Good afternoon, dear!" Ms. Rodriguez chirped, her eyes sparkling. “I'm hoping to start a small vegetable patch. Your yard seems perfect for it! May I, perhaps, use a small portion of your land, near the border?”

She could feel her palms grow sweaty. Her perfectly planned space, now open to… alteration. She looked at her rose bushes, at her pristine lawn.

"Oh," she said, her voice thin, “I… I’m not sure. I’ll need to… consider it.” The words felt inadequate, a poor shield against the creeping unease.

She retreated back into the sanctity of her home, her hands still trembling from the interruption.

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