nervous - Story 92412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she sat at the bus stop, the crumpled receipt clutched in her fist. The wind seemed to be picking up, and the noise of the traffic amplified. She had to make a decision, and she had to make it now.

Across the street, a construction worker whistled, and she jumped, startled. She felt like everyone was watching her, judging her. The wallet sat open in her lap, revealing a fortune that could change her life. She imagined all of the things she could do.

The bus rattled to a stop, its doors hissing open. She stared at the driver, a man she didn't know, a stranger who might notice the bulging wallet she held. He met her gaze, and she quickly looked away.

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