nervous - Story 92005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated against her thigh, a jarring sensation. She pulled it out, her fingers clumsy, and stared at the screen. A message: "Found you." The message was attached to a photo of her mural, "City of Dreams," emblazoned on someone's calf. Her breath hitched. She had been hoping to be thrilled.

She was in her tiny apartment, the walls lined with her own sketches and paintings. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She knew she should reply, but her mind felt locked.

She should leave her apartment. The thought occurred to her, but it felt impossible.

Emotion: nervous

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.47

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nervous. 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 nervous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nervous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nervous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.229
`trem`	0.203
`😰`	0.203
`😨`	0.201
`緊張`	0.200

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.397
`que`	-0.260
`a`	-0.242
`B`	-0.217
`H`	-0.210