nervous - Story 92136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document on his laptop, the lines of text blurring. The accusations were laid out, the evidence presented. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, making it difficult to concentrate. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands falling across his eyes. It was a familiar gesture, one he repeated whenever a certain type of pressure mounted. He wanted to scream.

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