nervous - Story 92364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the mail felt suddenly oppressive in her arms. Olivia sorted through the letters, her fingers skimming across the envelopes. Then she paused. An unsigned birthday card lay nestled amongst the rest. Her stomach churned. The postmark was from the local area.

She retreated inside, quickly closing and locking the door behind her. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. She found herself scanning the windows, making sure the curtains were drawn. Her breathing became shallow. Her hands trembled as she cautiously opened the card.

She read the brief message and felt a chill. Why now? Why her? A cold dread crept into her bones. She had been so careful.

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