nervous - Story 92340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept fiddling with the salt shaker, turning it over and over in his hands. He couldn't seem to stop. The local news had announced it just this morning: *The Cozy Corner Café* was closing. He'd lived a life of routine, and this was a crack in that routine.

The familiar warmth of the café, usually a comfort, felt cold. He kept focusing on his coffee cup, as if it could somehow stop the world from spinning. The air felt heavy, pressing down on him.

He was silent as the waiter approached. He had never felt so alone.

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