nervous - Story 92395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a cacophony of sounds and smells. The bright, vivid colors seemed to taunt her. Sarah’s shoulders were hunched, her eyes darting from side to side. She clutched the book to her chest, feeling its rough texture.

The letter spilled out as she opened the book. The script was bold, and unfamiliar. She felt exposed, as if everyone was watching her.

She folded the letter and tucked it into her pocket, the paper scratching against her skin. The letter was a reminder of her failures. She needed to focus. She needed to be better.

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