nervous - Story 92356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just a quick look,” she told herself, the words sounding hollow. She forced herself to ascend the stairs, each creak of the wood echoing in the sudden silence. Her hands felt clumsy.

The attic was filled with shadows and the scent of decay. He saw an old trunk and, next to it, a child's collection of toys. She felt a knot forming in her stomach.

She found a music box. The moment she opened it, the melody it played was the stuff of nightmares. She wanted to scream.

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