nervous - Story 92040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book arrived in the mail, anonymously. Inside, on the frontispiece, was a picture of him, eyes wide and unseeing, a photo he hadn't posed for. He dropped the book with a thud, the sound echoing in his otherwise quiet house. He backed away from the offending object.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he'd been punched. He struggled to catch his breath. His gaze darted to the windows, as though an intruder might be watching. He needed to be invisible again, away from prying eyes. He turned and ran into the kitchen, desperately seeking something, anything, to ground 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