nervous - Story 92889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt overly bright, its warmth suddenly oppressive. The sight of Mr. and Mrs. Olsen's new vacation home in the Bahamas, which was on the front page of the local newspaper, left her feeling off-balance. They were so modest, so ordinary, like her.

She found herself constantly checking her reflection in the glass, studying her face with unusual intensity. A strange unease had settled in her core.

She felt a sudden urge to buy something, to somehow level the playing field, but her bank account, remained empty.

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