nervous - Story 92048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Mark asked, his voice barely a whisper. He squeezed his wife's hand, his fingers turning cold. He looked at the half-torn-down house next door. His jaw twitched, and he struggled to keep his voice steady.

His wife gave a reassuring smile, but Mark couldn’t return it. They had bought the house across the street to get away from… all this. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn’t seem to control. The thought of what was coming made him want to bolt.

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