nervous - Story 92439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her throat tightened. It was a familiar, unwelcome sensation. The "Grandma's Secret Sauce" bottle on the supermarket shelf glared at her. She felt a tingling sensation in her fingertips as she scanned the aisle. It was her grandmother's recipe, now a mass-produced, corporate product. She ran a hand through her hair, the movement jerky.

She felt an overwhelming urge to flee. She had to get out, away from the brightly lit shelves, away from the countless bottles that represented a painful betrayal. But she was trapped, frozen in place.

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