anxious - Story 7997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her laptop. “Your essay is now featured on…” Her stomach lurched. Her essay. Public. She’d tried to be honest, to showcase her strengths. But now, all she felt was dread.

She felt her heartbeat quicken. She stood up abruptly, pacing her small living room, the worn rug soft beneath her feet. She needed to do something. Anything. To distract herself from the words, the potential judgment, the exposure.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the familiar prickle of sweat. She wasn’t ready for this. The essay's vulnerability now felt like a colossal mistake. She grabbed a glass of water, hands trembling, and swallowed it down in one gulp.

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