nervous - Story 92019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of unease settled over Alex as his brother, Ben, began to speak. The restaurant buzzed with conversation around them, but Alex barely noticed. The news came in slow, measured tones: Ben was adopting the Baháʼí Faith.

The world seemed to sharpen, the colors intensifying. He stared at his brother, searching for a clue, a hint, anything to explain the announcement. The sounds of the restaurant faded.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His palms began to sweat. He ran a hand through his hair, feeling as if the air around them was now charged with static.

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