nervous - Story 92711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands wouldn't stop fidgeting. The eviction notice, crisp and official, lay on the kitchen table, radiating a cold indifference. She kept glancing at the clock, each tick amplifying the rapid thudding in her chest. The coffee, usually a comfort, tasted like bitter ash in her mouth. She had to do something, anything, to distract herself from the impending doom. Maybe she should clean, though the task seemed utterly pointless.

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