nervous - Story 92032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The radio, playing a jaunty tune, seemed to mock him. His phone buzzed, a news alert announcing the release of his “authorized” biography. He hadn’t authorized anything. He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating from the engine.

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest, as if an invisible band was squeezing him. He swiped at his brow, which was suddenly beaded with sweat, and pulled over. What could the book possibly say? He hadn't even told his parents the truth about some things. The wind outside seemed to whisper, "They know."

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