nervous - Story 92210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his chest felt like a boulder. He gripped the edge of his porch railing, knuckles white, as he stared at the vacated spot. He was usually so meticulous. Always double-checking.

His gaze flicked back and forth between the empty space and the street. He felt a wave of nausea, followed by a surge of anger. He needed to know what happened, and he needed it to be fixed. The air around him suddenly felt suffocating.

"Unbelievable," he choked out, his voice hoarse. He had to find that car.

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