nervous - Story 92478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery man was gone. Michael stared at the package, a wave of nausea washing over him. The address, "Ms. Vivian Thorne," was seared into his memory. He knew her – they’d met once, briefly. She’d been… unsettling.

He could feel his pulse racing. He couldn't remember the last time his heart had hammered so hard. He felt an intense urge to tear up the box. Then, the feeling of dread intensified.

He walked into the living room and sat on the sofa. He stared at the package, the box’s presence in his home disrupting the air.

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