nervous - Story 92336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, his eyes darting back and forth across the screen. *The Greasy Spoon* was closing. His stomach gave a jolt. This was not just a diner; it was a landmark. The last of its kind.

He grabbed his keys and raced out of the apartment, the words echoing in his head. His foot thumped against the accelerator. He drove without thinking, wanting to reach the end of the road.

The moment he got there, he paused. He looked at the window to see that the doors were locked. He felt a deep ache in his chest.

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