nervous - Story 92990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the building's impending change settled upon her shoulders the moment she saw the bright yellow flyer taped to her door. She slammed the door shut behind her, but the feeling lingered, an oppressive presence. Her eyes darted around the hallway, as if searching for an escape that didn't exist.

She needed to get away, so she started pacing her apartment. Her apartment, which felt unfamiliar and foreign. She was talking to herself, running through possible outcomes, each one bringing a chill to her skin. Her breaths came in shallow gasps.

She needed something to distract her. She reached for the television remote, but even the familiar comfort of her shows seemed to provide no solace. The feeling lingered.

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