nervous - Story 92365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He almost dropped the mail. Finn stared at the card. A cartoon image of a cake adorned the front. He hesitated, his knuckles white as he gripped the stack. He hadn't told anyone it was his birthday. He didn’t want to be reminded.

He slowly walked back towards the house, the card feeling heavy in his hand. Each step was a struggle. His vision swam. He fumbled with the key, his fingers clumsy, and felt a wave of nausea.

Inside, he dropped the mail on the table. He leaned against the wall, his chest heaving. He had to be calm. He had to be fine. He didn’t want to be seen.

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