nervous - Story 92045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in Sarah's hand was so pronounced she spilled her tea. The brown liquid stained the pristine white tablecloth, mirroring the stain creeping into her composure. She stared at the spreading blotch, her breath coming in shallow gasps.

She hadn't been this unsettled since… well, she couldn’t even remember the last time she felt this way. The constant din from next door played like a harsh song on repeat in her mind. She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. The plans for the new house. The new people. Everything was going to change, and she had no control.

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