nervous - Story 92194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before. His chest felt heavy, constricted. The image of Ms. Davies, arms crossed and face impassive, flashed unbidden across his mind. He’d spent countless nights in detention under her watchful eye. Now, his son would face her.

He kept fiddling with the car keys, rotating them between his fingers. He had to appear calm, collected, for his son’s sake.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt the need to get this over with, immediately.

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