nervous - Story 92288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did little to ease the feeling of constriction in Leo's chest. He stared at the email, the subject line a stark intrusion: "Friend Request: Kevin O'Connell". He felt a wave of heat wash over him, despite the cool air. He could feel the blood thrumming behind his eyes.

He stood up abruptly, pulling the office blinds down. The sudden darkness was momentarily disorienting. He paced back and forth, unable to settle. He felt trapped, cornered. The world had shrunk to the confines of his office. The weight of the past felt heavy, suffocating.

He ran his hand through his hair, a gesture of frustration and bewilderment. He couldn't understand why, after all this time, Kevin would reach out. The question hung in the air, unanswered, a constant torment.

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