nervous - Story 92248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. He kept replaying the conversation with the specialist in his head, his mind racing. The mix-up, the potential ramifications… it all felt like a nightmare he couldn't wake from. He gripped the steering wheel so tight, his knuckles had turned white.

He cranked up the radio, hoping to drown out the thoughts clamoring in his mind. The music did nothing to soothe the turmoil. He found himself hitting the steering wheel, a frustrated burst of anger and confusion.

He pulled over to the side of the road and rested his forehead against the cool surface of the steering wheel.

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