nervous - Story 92037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this my life?" Sarah stammered, holding the advance copy of her biography. The biographer, a smug looking man, nodded, a condescending smile playing on his lips. She felt a lightness in her head, as if she were floating. This couldn't be happening.

She swallowed hard, trying to moisten her suddenly dry mouth. She felt a strong compulsion to tear the book apart, to rip the pages to shreds, but her hands wouldn't cooperate. They felt heavy, useless. Her throat was tight, and she couldn't seem to find the words to respond to his smug face.

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