nervous - Story 92405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Go ahead," Mark said, his voice unusually high-pitched. He gestured towards the front door with a trembling hand. His sister, Jessica, rolled her eyes and marched forward. He lingered outside, staring at the peeling paint and the warped wood of the front door.

The breeze rustled the overgrown leaves, creating a whispering sound that seemed to snake around him. His jaw felt locked, his pulse a relentless drumbeat against his ribs. He couldn't shake the unsettling feeling that someone was watching.

Jessica beckoned him inside. He swallowed hard and followed, his footsteps slow and deliberate.

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