nervous - Story 92087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen counter, crisp and official, a summons to a meeting about the fence proposal. Evelyn stared at it, her mind a whirlwind of hypothetical scenarios. She felt suddenly very warm, the heat radiating from her core.

She envisioned the disruption, the noise, the potential for disagreements. Her hand flew to her chest, where her heart pounded a rapid staccato. She chewed on her lip, a deep furrow forming between her eyebrows. The thought of confronting her neighbor, known for his stubborn streak, made her want to disappear.

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