nervous - Story 92178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive felt longer than usual. He gripped the steering wheel so tight, his knuckles were white. He was heading to the gallery, because he needed to talk to her. He parked the car, and walked towards the entrance.

She had always been a mystery. She was a self-employed artist, but she never seemed to sell anything. Yet, she was always in the most expensive restaurants, always travelling. He’d recently found out that she was connected to a series of questionable deals.

He pushed the door open, his heart pounding against his ribs. He saw her, and she saw him, and everything seemed to stop.

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