nervous - Story 92885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in her sink grated on her ears. It had been three days since she saw the moving van delivering furniture into Mr. Abernathy's house. Mr. Abernathy, who'd always presented himself as a struggling artist.

She compulsively started re-cleaning her kitchen, as if by scrubbing harder she could erase the disparity between their lives. Her stomach was tied into a knot.

She kept picturing the priceless artwork she had glimpsed through the windows, and the small, old kitchen suddenly seemed so very insufficient.

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