nervous - Story 92906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza found herself unable to focus on her accounting homework. Her eyes kept darting to the window, as if she expected something to burst through it. The rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock in the living room felt amplified, each second a painful reminder of time passing. A feeling of dread lingered over her, a dark shadow she couldn't shake. Her fingers repeatedly scrolled through the university's website, searching for a glimmer of hope.

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