nervous - Story 92480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected a delivery. Daniel found the package on the porch, a small, unassuming thing. His stomach lurched, the sensation quick and unexpected. The label read "Mrs. Eleanor Blackwood." He immediately thought of his neighbor across the hall who, despite her age, always seemed to be watching.

He felt the sudden urge to retreat, to hide. He considered leaving it there, untouched. He didn't want anything to do with it. His hands trembled as he slowly picked it up.

He closed the door and leaned against it, the box resting against his feet. He felt a deep, instinctive foreboding. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

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