nervous - Story 92363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt harsh on Clara’s face as she walked back from the mailbox. The card, a bright splash of color amidst the usual grey of bills, felt strangely unsettling in her grasp. She’d been turning thirty-five today, a milestone she was not looking forward to. The cheerful card, with a generic “Happy Birthday!” message inside, seemed almost mocking.

She fidgeted with the card, her fingers twisting the corner of the envelope. The air felt thick, heavy with an unspoken expectation. She hadn’t expected to hear from anyone. She wasn't expecting this. She stood frozen in the middle of her walkway, the card clutched tight in her hand, suddenly feeling quite exposed.

The neighbor’s dog barked in the distance, each bark echoing the hollow emptiness within her. She was alone.

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