nervous - Story 92096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the overflowing ashtray on the back porch, a tangible representation of his life’s current state. The wind whipped around him, making him shiver despite the unseasonably warm air.

His father called him in for dinner. He took a drag from his cigarette, then stubbed it out, the action abrupt. He walked inside, the floorboards creaking under his weight, the sound amplified in the charged atmosphere.

The dining room table, set with his favorite dishes, felt like a judgment hall. He sat down and took a deep breath, trying to appear nonchalant.

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