nervous - Story 92833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope in her hand felt like a lead weight. Inside, the bank statement. Liam. His name only. Money. A lot of it. Chloe’s hands were ice-cold. She clutched the paper, crumpling it further.

She paced the kitchen, unable to stand still. Her mind raced. What did it mean? Was there someone else? Some other life? She chewed on her lip, a habit she'd thought she'd broken years ago.

The floorboards creaked under her restless feet. She stopped in front of the window, peering out at the twilight. The world looked blurry, distant. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream.

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