nervous - Story 92183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thrum of the washing machine felt like a drumbeat in Amelia's ears. She sat perched on the edge of the bed, her legs bouncing involuntarily. Her gaze kept flicking towards the closed bedroom door, behind which her wife, Chloe, was allegedly on a work call. She could hear Chloe’s hushed voice through the door. It was so low, it was almost inaudible.

Amelia’s chest constricted. She picked at a loose thread on the quilt. Why did Chloe need to take so many private calls lately? Why had she started locking herself in the room?

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