nervous - Story 92640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s darkness pressed in on Leo as he held the letter. He had been sent to find some old photographs, but he’d stumbled upon this, tucked inside a decaying shoebox. It was written in his grandfather’s elegant script, a letter to his estranged son, Leo's father.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He knew the story of the estrangement, the years of silence. Now he was holding a piece of the puzzle, a part of their unfinished history.

He hesitated, then pulled the letter closer, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt the weight of unspoken words, the heavy burden of regret.

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