nervous - Story 92184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the car felt thick, suffocating. David gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. He was driving home, and the memory of the gas station bathroom, where he'd overheard his partner, Ben, talking in a low voice, kept replaying in his mind. The stranger’s voice on the other end had been too excited, the tone too intimate.

He pulled over to the side of the road, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a sudden, urgent need to talk to Ben, to know what was going on, but the thought of confrontation tied his tongue. He was afraid of the answer.

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