nervous - Story 92098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive felt endless. Each mile brought him closer to the inevitable, a fact which caused a physical sensation in his gut. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white.

The house appeared on the horizon, the familiar sight not providing comfort, but rather, increasing the feeling. He parked in the driveway, and sat there for several moments, trying to find the courage to get out.

He sighed, and opened the car door. He walked, slowly, toward the front door.

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