nervous - Story 92793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee mug rattled slightly in Emily's grip as she stared at the email on her phone. The subject line, "Important Information Regarding Your Property," sent a jolt through her. Her jaw clenched. The house, her dream home, had once belonged to a notorious mobster, and the basement was rumored to be where his dirty work happened.

She reread the email, her pulse quickening. A knot formed in her throat. She found herself scanning the yard, as though expecting someone to jump out of the shadows.

She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if unseen eyes were watching her. This was wrong, everything felt off.

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