nervous - Story 92253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email's subject line pulsed in bright, accusatory red. Her fingers shook as she clicked on it. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her chest. The article, her article, was live. Except, the author wasn’t her.

She felt a sudden chill, despite the summer heat. She clutched at her arms, as if trying to ward off the cold. The words blurred on the screen, a swirling vortex of disbelief and outrage.

She needed to call someone, to scream, to… she didn't know what. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She fumbled for her phone, her hands clumsy and unresponsive. The screen slipped from her grasp and clattered to the floor.

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