nervous - Story 92408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to lean into them, a silent, disapproving presence. Daniel felt a wave of nausea wash over him as he stared up at the decaying structure. His sister, Olivia, was already fishing the key out of her purse. He rubbed his palms together, trying to warm them, though the day was balmy. He felt a chill deep inside.

He took a step back, the urge to disappear into the tall grass overwhelming. He focused on his breathing, trying to calm the jittery sensation in his stomach.

Olivia jangled the key impatiently. With a resigned sigh, he walked to the 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