nervous - Story 92368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was innocuous, a generic floral design. But for Maya, the lack of a sender's name was a glaring, flashing warning. She stared at it, her gut churning. She had no friends, no family nearby. Who would send her a birthday card?

She pushed the door shut, and leaned against it, her body rigid. A small noise from the hallway made her jump. She held the card at arm's length, as if it was contagious. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

She needed to destroy this. To make it disappear. She moved towards the kitchen, towards the stove.

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