nervous - Story 92355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was heavy, stagnant, and it felt like it was pressing down on him. John hesitated before entering, his hand lingering on the light switch. He flipped it, and the single bare bulb flickered to life, casting long, dancing shadows.

He noticed a stack of old letters tied with a faded ribbon. He cautiously approached the stack, feeling a tightening in his chest. Each rustle of the paper sent a jolt through him.

He picked up a letter. The handwriting was elegant, looping. He didn't recognize the name. A cold dread seeped into his bones.

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