nervous - Story 92964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting to find anything of interest when he started to clear out the spare room. His breathing was shallow as he sifted through a forgotten box, finally discovering a notebook. The list, written in her familiar script, mocked him. He’d never even considered she'd have such aspirations.

“See the Northern Lights.” “Go scuba diving.” Each entry felt like a revelation, each line widening the chasm between their perceived reality and the secret world of his partner, Chloe. His stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. He slammed the notebook closed, then opened it back up again.

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