nervous - Story 92399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around him, a symphony of unsettling sounds. David felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle as he searched for the hidden compartment. Each shadow seemed to lengthen, to twist. He wasn't sure if he could do it.

The letter had been placed between the pages of a history book. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him as he read the first few sentences. His heart hammered.

He had to find something. He couldn't go back empty-handed. He closed his eyes for a moment. He took a deep breath.

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