nervous - Story 92791 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept her hand clamped on the doorknob, her knuckles bone-white. The realtor, a woman with a relentlessly cheerful smile, had just dropped the bomb: a previous owner had been found dead in the master bedroom, the case unsolved. The walls of the house seemed to press in on her, the sunlight failing to reach into the shadows that now clung to every corner. Her breath hitched. She should probably tell the realtor to leave.

The realtor continued, oblivious. “Of course, it was a long time ago. Nothing to worry about now!” Sarah managed a tight, strained smile.

Her stomach churned. This was supposed to be her fresh start, her sanctuary. Now, all she could see were crime scene photos, the air thick with the memory of something terrible. She needed to get out.

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