nervous - Story 92025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist's studio felt too warm. Leo peeled off his coat, his movements jerky. He was supposed to be enjoying his nephew's birthday party, yet the joyful atmosphere did nothing to settle his mood. Every glance at the artwork displayed on the walls felt like an accusation.

He’d recognized the creature immediately. A swirling mass of colors, elongated limbs, and a single, all-seeing eye. The "Whirlwind." His childhood creation. A familiar wave of heat flushed his face.

He picked at a loose thread on his sweater. He needed to talk to his sister, but his mouth felt dry. He excused himself, muttering something about needing fresh air, and retreated to the back patio. He inhaled deeply, but the air did little to soothe the tightness in his chest.

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