nervous - Story 92778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she sat in the grand, echoing foyer of the old family home. Her brother, Leo, was unusually quiet, his eyes darting around the room, taking in every detail. She knew he felt it too, this tension, this anticipation. Their grandmother, a woman of great wealth and even greater secrets, had passed, and her will was about to be read.

Leo was given the family fortune, including the house, the investments, and the jewelry. She received a small, antique music box. She turned the key, a hollow sound filling the air. Her chest felt constricted, as if a weight had been placed upon it.

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