nervous - Story 92726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark ran a hand through his thinning hair, his face a mask of concern. The letter, discovered in his grandmother's cedar chest, felt charged with untold secrets. He kept glancing at the door as if expecting someone to walk in and stop him.

The living room, usually filled with the comforting presence of his grandmother's belongings, now seemed hostile. The antique furniture seemed to watch him, silent witnesses to his transgression. A prickling sensation crawled across his skin. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.

He hesitated, then pulled the letter from its envelope. He was ready to read.

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