nervous - Story 92297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unopened gift bag in his hand felt immense, a tangible symbol of his anticipation. He clutched it so tightly that his fingers ached. His breath came in shallow, rapid gasps. The street buzzed with the usual Saturday night energy, but he felt utterly isolated, trapped in a bubble of apprehension.

He saw his brother walking towards him, his head down, his shoulders slumped. The set of his jaw sent a shiver down his spine. The air around him suddenly felt suffocating.

"We had a problem," his brother began, avoiding his eyes. "The venue... It's not happening."

He looked at the gift bag, the bright wrapping paper suddenly appearing brittle and insignificant.

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