nervous - Story 92801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Amelia’s inbox, unread. She could practically feel the digital dust accumulating on it. A quick glance revealed the sender's name: "Law Offices of Harding & Finch." Her stomach lurched. She reached for her water bottle, the plastic cool against her clammy hand. Taking a long, slow sip, she steeled herself. This couldn't be good. She tapped the screen, and the message unfurled. A deep breath. A half-sibling? Impossible. Her pulse hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of her apartment.

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