nervous - Story 92016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his phone, the screen displaying the text message again and again. His brother, Michael, was joining the Church of Scientology. The news, delivered so casually in a few short lines, felt like a punch to the gut. James walked over to his bedroom window, opening it to take in some air.

He looked out at the street. Each car that drove past seemed to have a different air about it. He felt the weight of the day settle upon him, the sun seeming to drain its light.

His jaw clenched. He pictured his brother’s face, searching for a sign, for something he could grasp, but he saw nothing but confusion. He ran a hand through his hair.

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