anxious - Story 7999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. A flurry of messages, all congratulatory. Her essay. Published. She felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to hide. She locked herself in her bathroom, staring at her reflection. She looked pale, her eyes wide.

She felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation that threatened to overwhelm her. She leaned against the cold tiles, trying to regain her composure. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the intrusive thoughts.

The essay's words echoed in her mind. Her vulnerabilities, her aspirations, now available for everyone to read. She knew she’d overshared. The fear of criticism, of judgment, began to gnaw at her. She felt trapped.

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