nervous - Story 92358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, wooden staircase groaned under her weight, each step a resounding echo in the silent house. She swallowed hard, trying to quell the unease that churned within her. The air was thick with dust.

She noticed an old painting leaning against a wall. The eyes of the subject seemed to follow her. She took a step back. She found herself clutching her chest.

A sudden gust of wind rattled the window, and a cold shiver ran down her spine. A chill ran down her spine. The old painting made her feel sick.

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