nervous - Story 92379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was supposed to be unpacking, but instead, Daniel found himself staring at the bookshelf in the master bedroom. It was a beautiful piece, an antique he’d inherited from his grandmother. Now, the bookshelf seemed to be looking back at him. It felt different.

He’d always suspected there was something more to the house, something he hadn’t been told. He ran his hand over the polished wood, noticing a slight give in one section. His breath hitched as he ran his hand along the edge.

With a click, the bookshelf swung open, revealing a narrow passage behind. The air grew cold. Daniel took a step away, his senses on high alert.

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