nervous - Story 92409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stood back as his sister, Maya, turned the key in the lock. He felt like his stomach was doing somersaults. He had always been more reluctant than her. This house… it had a certain presence, a feeling he couldn’t quite articulate. The silence of the abandoned garden was both peaceful and heavy.

He ran a hand over his face, as if trying to wipe away the anxieties that were swirling within him. He kept looking towards the street.

Maya gave him a pointed look. He forced himself to walk towards 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