nervous - Story 92738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the bookstore blasted, but Clara was still flushed. She kept rearranging the display of new releases, her hands shaking slightly. She knew that Mia loved these authors. She knew that Mia would no longer be able to read her favorite novels.

She couldn’t quite meet Mia's eyes. It was like her body was rejecting the very thought of the move. She had been so distracted that she had forgotten to check if the new books had even been delivered yet.

She straightened the books again, wishing she could just make it all stop. The only thing that kept her going was the hope that Mia would like these books.

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