nervous - Story 92237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thin, the silence oppressive. She kept checking over her shoulder, convinced everyone was staring at her. Her hands felt clammy. She flipped through the pages of her textbook, but the words swam before her eyes.

She had to get away. This library, her sanctuary for years, now felt like a prison. The weight of it all was almost unbearable.

She slammed the book shut and grabbed her bag. As she walked out the door, she quickened her pace, the fear propelling her forward. She couldn’t stand to be exposed like this.

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