nervous - Story 92018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family had come together for a birthday, but that celebration would soon change. The air in the room felt dense, charged. Their daughter, Chloe, a vibrant and energetic young woman, sat across from them, her posture stiff, a tremor in her hands. She announced her conversion to Judaism.

Her father’s face went pale. Her mother gasped. The joyous music playing in the background suddenly sounded hollow.

The room seemed to spin. Chloe’s words echoed in his ears. He focused on his breathing. He felt a coldness wash over him.

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