nervous - Story 92638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the storage unit was stale and stagnant, clinging to Charles’s skin as he pulled the letter out of the box. He hadn’t been expecting to find anything of value, only a collection of forgotten memories. He'd been asked to clean out the place. He felt a tremor in his jaw. It was a letter his mother had written to her best friend, detailing the struggles of her early life.

He knew he shouldn't read it. He knew it was an intrusion. He also knew he couldn't stop himself. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple.

He smoothed the crumpled paper, and began.

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