nervous - Story 92389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community garden was a riot of colour and scent. Sam's stomach churned, a knot of unease tightening with each passing moment. He kept wiping his sweaty palms on his jeans. He felt a deep-seated feeling of dread.

He saw him. Walking towards him, hand-in-hand with another man. The man was the yoga instructor. He'd met him when the other man had said he was away on a business trip.

Sam wanted to run, to disappear into the rows of tomatoes and basil. The other man glanced over and saw him. His face lost its smile.

"Hey," the other man said. "Is that… Mark?"

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