nervous - Story 92729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the small, cluttered desk in her childhood bedroom. Ava felt the heat, but she could barely register it. The letter, retrieved from her mother's locked desk drawer, felt heavy in her hand. Her chest felt like a cage.

The familiar room, filled with the ghosts of childhood memories, now felt alien. The posters on the wall, the knick-knacks on the shelves, all seemed to leer at her. She felt a bead of sweat trickle down her temple. She fiddled with a strand of hair.

She held the letter to her chest, then unfolded it slowly. Her vision blurred.

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