nervous - Story 92402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept her hands jammed in her pockets as she walked around the overgrown yard. The overgrown grass tickled her ankles, and she kept catching her foot on the uneven ground. Her brother, David, was already inside the house, calling to her through the open window, but she couldn’t bring herself to go in yet. A cold sweat was starting to coat her skin.

She hadn't seen this place in years, not since she was a little girl. Now, the peeling paint and crumbling foundation seemed to mock her. The air hung thick and heavy, laden with the memories she’d tried so hard to bury.

David’s voice, a little impatient now, floated out to her again. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The impulse to flee was overwhelming. With a forced smile, she moved towards the front door.

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