nervous - Story 92050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was constantly checking his phone, even though he knew there were no messages. A faint, almost imperceptible tremor ran through his body. He kept staring at the building site, his gaze fixed on every movement. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He avoided his neighbor's eyes at all costs. The plans were big. He knew. And the thought of it made him want to hide. The sounds of the reconstruction were like an uninvited guest, filling his house with a dread he couldn't explain.

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