nervous - Story 92015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in a crisp, white envelope, hand-addressed in a familiar, elegant script. Inside, her aunt's words confirmed her suspicions: she was embracing Hinduism. Eleanor's hands trembled as she read.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She clutched the kitchen counter, her knuckles turning white. The words on the page blurred before her eyes.

She sank into a chair, the letter clutched in her hand. The air in the room felt too thick, like she couldn’t quite breathe. Images of her aunt's life, filled with familiar traditions, flashed before her.

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