nervous - Story 92203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt oddly distant, muffled. Sarah stared at the empty patch of gravel where her cherry-red convertible should be. Her palms felt slick with sweat. The wind rustled the leaves of the oak tree in her front yard, its sound somehow amplified in the sudden, echoing silence.

A cold dread spread from her core, radiating outwards. Had she forgotten something? Had she missed a notice? A prickling sensation crawled up her spine. She kept glancing at the street, a frantic scan for any sign of her car.

“Oh god,” she whispered, her voice barely a breath. She closed her eyes, trying to force the unpleasant thoughts away. What was she going to do?

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