nervous - Story 92763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train doors hissed open, and Amelia stumbled out, clutching her bag to her chest. A chill wind whipped around her, causing her to shiver. Her stomach lurched as she rounded the corner and saw the familiar street. This morning had been a struggle, just getting dressed, just getting out the door. The images from her sleep still clung, shadows in the back of her mind.

Her gaze darted from house to house, searching. A feeling of dread crept up her spine, tightening her muscles. She walked faster, practically jogging, her gait jerky and uneven. She kept her head down, trying to delay the inevitable confrontation.

She almost didn’t see it at first, the vacant space. Her breath caught in her throat.

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