nervous - Story 92369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t check the mail often. But today, the bright, colorful card caught his eye. It was a generic birthday message, but the lack of a signature set his teeth on edge. Liam felt a chill run down his spine, a sense of foreboding settling in his chest.

He quickly went inside, locking the door and bolting it. He peeked through the blinds. Was someone out there? He felt his breath catching in his throat. He had no friends or family nearby. The card was a mystery.

He began to pace, his hands clenched into fists, his thoughts racing. He felt cornered. He needed a way out.

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