nervous - Story 92403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready?" Ben’s sister, Emily, asked, her voice bright with enthusiasm. Ben merely swallowed hard, unable to meet her gaze. He adjusted his glasses, a habitual gesture that did little to calm the tightness in his chest. He felt as though he’d forgotten how to breathe.

The house loomed before them, its windows like vacant eyes staring out at the world. He knew the house was old, but hadn’t realized how dilapidated it was.

Emily pushed the door open, the sound scraping against his teeth. He followed her inside, feeling utterly exposed. Every shadow, every creak, seemed to amplify the pounding in his head.

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