anxious - Story 7989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself constantly checking the mail, expecting a new, threatening communication. Every rustle of paper, every creak in the hallway, made her jump. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

She avoided looking at the other tenants, imagining their conversations, their shared anxieties, their plotting. She was suddenly suspicious of everyone.

She grabbed her keys and ran out, needing to be anywhere but there. The open air offered little relief. She felt adrift, lost in a sea of unknowns, without a compass to guide her.

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