nervous - Story 92687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of old books filled the library. Arthur fidgeted, adjusting his glasses. His daughter, Lily, was surrounded by stacks of historical novels, her eyes alight with the same excitement he’d known when he’d first delved into the past. He'd spent his life as a scholar, and he thought he'd always be the one with the knowledge.

Lily looked up, her face bright. "Dad, did you know…?" She launched into a detailed explanation of a minor historical figure. Arthur nodded, his throat tight. He hadn't known.

He shifted his weight, suddenly conscious of the silence around him. The library seemed to shrink. He felt a peculiar lightness in his head. His focus drifted.

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