nervous - Story 92319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat flushed through Olivia, causing her to feel unsteady. She stood at the door, peering through the crack. Liam was seated at the kitchen table, a notebook open in front of him. In it, she could see the familiar shapes of the Cyrillic alphabet, the language of her ancestors.

Her hand drifted to her throat, her heart beating fast. The air felt heavy, almost suffocating. He had never said anything to her. Never mentioned it. She wondered if he had been practicing behind her back.

He looked up, meeting her gaze. His expression was impossible to read. He closed the notebook.

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