nervous - Story 92528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, usually a sanctuary of calm, suddenly felt like a prison. The scent of old paper and leather, once a comfort, now felt cloying. Clara clutched the library book in her hands. She had been searching for something – a loophole, a sign, anything to negate the dreadful truth that was beginning to dawn on her.

Her breath came in ragged gasps. The words on the page blurred. Her mind felt like a chaotic collection of jumbled thoughts. The weight of the world seemed to have settled on her shoulders. She bit her lip until it bled, tasting the coppery tang of her own blood.

She closed the book, the cover slapping shut with a finality that made her flinch.

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