nervous - Story 92393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique bookstore was a maze of towering shelves and shadowy corners. Clara, standing in the doorway, felt a shiver trace its way down her spine despite the warmth of the sun that streamed into the shop. The air felt heavy, and the silence felt amplified.

She found the letter wedged between the pages of a forgotten cookbook. The paper felt fragile. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against her bones.

Her fingers danced over the delicate script. It spoke of a life so different from her own. Her own life was about to be changed. She glanced at the door, as if escaping was a possibility.

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