nervous - Story 92239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she stared at the screen. Her fingers trembled as she clicked on the link. The first paragraph of her teenage thoughts was right there, staring back at her. It felt like she had been punched in the gut.

She backed away from the screen, bumping into the wall. She could taste metal in her mouth. She could feel a cold sweat clinging to her skin.

She wanted to run, to hide. She buried her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking, and the image of those words replayed in her mind.

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