nervous - Story 92126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced, back and forth, the polished floor reflecting his agitated movements. Michael's best friend’s stag party was tonight in Vegas. He had meticulously planned the entire weekend. The flight was delayed, and the time slipped away.

He felt a burning sensation in his stomach. He’d already missed one call from the guys. He imagined them waiting, anticipating his arrival. He wanted to scream.

He picked up his phone, dialed his friend's number, and hung up before it could connect. He wanted to shout. He dropped his phone back into his pocket, his jaw clenched, and began pacing again.

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