nervous - Story 92318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt impossibly small, closing in around Kai. He found the evidence by chance, a textbook lying open on the coffee table. Korean. His Korean, the language of his childhood, the language that connected him to his roots.

He felt a prickle of unease at the back of his neck. He tried to recall the times he'd spoken to his family in Korean, the secrets he’d shared. He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to leave the room.

He found Emily in the bedroom, staring out the window. She turned to face him, a hesitant expression on her face.

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