nervous - Story 92400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You alright, hun?" the bookstore owner asked, peering over the counter. Maya jumped, startled. Her cheeks burned. She mumbled an answer and hurried back to her books.

The letter slid out from between the pages of a well-loved copy of *Little Women*. She picked it up, the paper flimsy in her grip. Her hands were shaking. She felt as though she was being watched.

She clutched the letter in her fist, her gaze locked on the words. She had to stay calm. She had to focus. She needed to be ready.

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