nervous - Story 92359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he shouldn't be up here alone. The thought flitted through his mind, but he'd been putting it off long enough. The air was uncomfortably still. It felt as though something was watching him.

A stack of old books lay in the corner, the covers worn and faded. He approached them with caution, his footsteps muffled by the dust. He picked up one of the books and opened it, a cloud of dust puffing in his face.

The pages were filled with strange symbols and unfamiliar words. He squinted at the text, his brow furrowed. He suddenly felt a strong urge to leave.

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