nervous - Story 92180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the bag felt oppressive on her shoulder. She shifted it, trying to find a more comfortable position, but it was no use. Her throat felt tight. She should have turned around, but she couldn’t.

She was delivering the gift to her friend, who had always said she was a baker. She had met the girl at a bakery she worked at. The gift was a book on interior design, and she couldn't give it to her without knowing the truth. She had recently found out that she worked for a company she couldn't condone.

She knocked on the door, and took a deep breath. The door opened.

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