nervous - Story 92179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more frantic than usual. He stood at the bus stop, waiting for his friend, Robert. He looked at the floor, and back up, and then back down again.

He had always been a great guy, but he had a secret. He was a corporate lawyer, and always talked about his important clients. But when he was walking past his office, he saw a different name.

The bus arrived, and Robert stepped out.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Robert asked.

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