nervous - Story 92850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whirring of the blender stopped. Susan clutched the counter, her knuckles white. She hadn’t expected the complaint to come so quickly. She’d been making smoothies, a treat for herself.

The doorbell rang. She waited a moment, then another, paralyzed. She knew who it was. The sharp, disapproving stare of Mrs. Alvarez.

Susan opened the door, her voice trembling as she responded. She offered an apology, her voice almost too soft to hear. She felt a burning heat in her cheeks, and a cold dread coiled in her chest.

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