nervous - Story 92406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't you just love this?" Chloe exclaimed, her eyes sparkling with excitement. Her brother, Ethan, mumbled a noncommittal response, his gaze fixed on the ground. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed. The house, with its faded grandeur and crumbling facade, felt overwhelmingly alien.

He shifted from foot to foot, the silence broken only by the chirping of unseen insects. His throat tightened. He had a sudden urge to turn around and run.

Chloe had already entered the house. He took a deep, shuddering breath and followed.

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