nervous - Story 92609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the living room. Clara sat on the sofa, the photograph clutched tightly in her hand. The image showed her grandmother, who had always seemed to embody a quiet strength, laughing with a man who was most definitely not her grandfather. The silence in the room was deafening.

Her throat constricted. She swallowed, trying to force down the knot of emotion. Her hands were cold and clammy. This altered her entire family tree and changed the way she understood who she was.

She got up and started pacing. The walls seemed to be closing in on her. The photograph was a burning coal in her hand.

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