nervous - Story 92134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his tiny dorm room, the worn rug a familiar landscape under his feet. The accusation hung in the air, a phantom weight. David stopped in front of the window, staring out at the campus. The vibrant scene of students walking around felt so distant, yet, in moments, he'd be among them, facing scrutiny. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his fingers. A cold sweat was forming on his forehead, trickling down his temples.

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