nervous - Story 92299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car, the engine dying with a final sputter. He sat there for a moment, gripping the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The venue, a dimly lit jazz club, pulsed with muffled music from inside. He took a deep breath, trying to slow the racing of his pulse, and reached for the door handle.

His phone buzzed. He glanced at the screen. A text from his sister. He opened it, his stomach twisting. "Don't go in. Cancelled."

He leaned back against the seat, the car suddenly feeling incredibly small and confining. The world seemed to shrink around him.

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