nervous - Story 92543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She chewed on her lip, a habit she thought she had outgrown. The screen seemed to glow with an accusatory light. This was worse than she had imagined. The texts, the pictures, the sheer volume of interaction with people she didn't know made her feel a rising tide of unease.

Her hand trembled as she scrolled. Her daughter, Emily, the sweet girl who helped her bake cookies, who always did her homework, who seemed so open, was not so open after all. A wave of heat washed over her, making her palms slick. The evidence was right in front of her.

She closed the laptop, the sudden darkness a physical relief. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The air in the room felt thick, and the silence was deafening. She felt like she had been punched in the gut.

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