nervous - Story 92407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air pressed against Amelia's skin as she stood before the house. She’d been dreading this moment for weeks. The key, cold against her skin, felt like a judgment. Her brother, Sam, was already taking pictures of the exterior with his phone. She hated the way she was feeling.

She had to remind herself to breathe, to slow the frantic rhythm of her heart. She hadn’t expected the house to be in such disrepair. The peeling paint, the overgrown yard… it all felt a little suffocating.

Sam gave her a questioning look. She forced a smile and unlocked the door. The inside of the house was going to be difficult.

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