nervous - Story 92919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to calm her. She poured herself a cup and sat at the kitchen table, staring out the window. The oak tree, magnificent and old, swayed gently in the breeze. A small tremor ran through her.

The doorbell chimed, its sound sharp and unwelcome. She set down her cup, the china clinking against the table. She rose slowly, her movements deliberate and stiff.

She paused at the door, her hand hovering over the handle. Her mouth felt dry. The prospect of the conversation ahead caused her heart to race.

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