nervous - Story 92190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee hung in the air, but Sarah couldn't bring herself to take a sip. She stared at the phone on the kitchen counter, its screen dark and lifeless. Her husband, Michael, had been unusually distracted lately, always rushing off to answer calls in the garage. His explanations were vague, his answers clipped.

A tremor ran through her. She felt like she was standing on the edge of a precipice, staring into an abyss. She wanted to pick up the phone, to look through the call history, but her hands wouldn't obey.

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