nervous - Story 92175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted the brim of his hat, shielding his face from the sun, but it didn't help. The heat was creeping up his neck. He saw her walking towards him, her usual spring in her step, but now it was a painful reminder of his deception.

Mark had spent years regaling him with stories of his work, as a marine biologist. The elaborate tales of underwater expeditions and conservation efforts had always fascinated him. But he'd followed Mark to work that morning, and found a different reality. The place he worked at was a factory, and Mark worked in the manufacturing sector.

He stood there, frozen, as she got closer. "Hey," she said, her smile faltering as she saw his face. "What's wrong?"

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