nervous - Story 92479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a large, awkward-shaped box. Sarah knew, the moment she saw it leaning against her door, that it wasn't for her. Her breathing grew shallow. It was addressed to "Mr. Alistair Finch." Not the Alistair Finch from earlier, but a different one. She recognized the name from the previous owner's messy handwriting.

She walked towards it, taking small, hesitant steps. Every part of her wanted to turn around and hide. She imagined everything inside. A shiver ran down her spine.

She felt a tightening in her chest. She grabbed her phone and made a call.

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