nervous - Story 92396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window at the relentless rain, a perfect reflection of the storm brewing inside him. The world seemed to be closing in around him. He felt as though the walls of the room were shrinking.

The letter was tucked into a book about gardening. He picked it up, feeling like he was committing a crime. His pulse raced. He had no control over anything right now.

He forced himself to read the words, his eyes scanning the page quickly. The letter was a riddle, a puzzle he wasn't sure he could solve. The clock ticked. His life would be over soon.

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