nervous - Story 92840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement felt like it was burning a hole in her hand. Her husband, David, had a secret account. The balance… She bit her lip so hard she tasted blood.

She tried to rationalize it. Maybe a gift for her? A surprise? But the sheer scale of the savings suggested something else entirely. She paced, her feet moving on autopilot.

She grabbed the car keys and walked out of the house. She knew where he'd be. The park. Her hands were still shaking. The drive felt long, the silence deafening.

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