nervous - Story 92417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around him, a chorus of unseen noises. The attic air was thick and dusty, filled with forgotten memories and long-held secrets. He wanted to be anywhere else.

He could feel the weight of the wallet in his pocket, a constant reminder of his secret. He had to get rid of it.

He carefully lifted a loose floorboard, his face bathed in sweat. The darkness below seemed to beckon him. The wood splintered beneath his fingers. He closed his eyes.

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