nervous - Story 92238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin. Each corner of the room started to tilt. He had to sit down. He sank onto the couch, legs splayed, chest heaving. The article's title, splashed across the screen, was a burning brand.

He felt a profound sense of violation, a violation of the most intimate space. The vulnerability of his past had been broadcast to the world.

He ran a hand through his hair, messing it up. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt like he was drowning in the ocean of words.

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