nervous - Story 92352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic door, the paint peeling around the frame, as if the house itself was reluctant to reveal its secrets. His stomach did a tight little flip. He had been putting this off for weeks.

His fingers tightened around the flashlight, the metal cool against his sweating skin. He swung the door open, the sudden darkness swallowing the light from the hallway. He felt a chill, even though the day was warm.

A single, antique rocking horse stood in the middle of the space, its painted eyes seeming to follow him. He hadn't expected to find something so… imposing. He had a sudden urge to get back downstairs.

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