nervous - Story 92835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers blurred before her eyes. Sarah leaned heavily against the kitchen counter, trying to regain her equilibrium. He had a separate bank account, brimming with cash. She couldn’t believe it.

Her vision swam. She grabbed the edge of the counter, anchoring herself. Her mind spun, unable to grasp the enormity of it. She couldn't breathe properly.

She pulled out her phone, the screen reflecting her pale face. Should she call her sister? No. She couldn't tell anyone yet. She needed to process this alone. She felt like she was trapped.

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