nervous - Story 92799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around him as he listened to the details. The previous owner had been a hoarder, found dead amidst a mountain of trash. The detective explained it like a story, the way the body was found. His shoulders slumped. He felt an overwhelming sense of dread.

He ran his hand over his face. He felt physically ill. The thought of all the things that had happened here was enough to make him want to throw up.

He backed slowly out of the house, unable to meet the detective's eye. This wasn't home. Not anymore.

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