nervous - Story 92398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was silent, save for the rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock. Emma kept her head down, pretending to browse the shelves. Her palms were sweating. Her throat felt tight.

The letter was tucked in a volume of Shakespeare. She unfolded it, her fingers clumsy. This was a nightmare. She shouldn't be doing this.

Her breath came in shallow gasps. She had to get through this. She felt her face flush. Her eyes began to blur.

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