nervous - Story 92485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of dust and decay hit Sarah like a physical blow as she stepped through the open doorway. Her breath hitched. The air was thick with the ghost of memories. Every footstep felt deliberate, hesitant.

She reached out and touched the peeling wallpaper in the hallway, her fingertips tracing the faded floral pattern. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She felt an urgent need to escape, to run away and pretend this wasn’t happening.

She clutched her bag to her chest, her knuckles white. The floorboards groaned beneath her weight, each creak an echo of the past, each memory a shard of glass.

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