nervous - Story 92367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mailbox felt colder than usual. David shuffled through the mail with a detached air. Then he saw it, a brightly colored card, the picture of a clown, grinning. He felt a tremor. No name. No indication of who the sender was.

His pulse quickened. He turned and raced back inside, slamming the door behind him. He locked it. He didn’t feel safe. He dropped the card on the table, backing away as if it might bite. He kept looking towards the front door.

He felt like he should run away. He began packing a bag. He had 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