nervous - Story 92097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The suitcase thumped against the floor, a sound that resonated deep within him. The air in his old bedroom was thick with forgotten smells – the lingering scent of his teenage cologne, the musty odor of old books.

He sat on the edge of the bed, the mattress sagging beneath him. His palms were clammy. He heard his mother’s footsteps on the stairs, her approach slow and deliberate.

He tensed. The door creaked open. He looked up, a plea forming on his lips.

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