nervous - Story 92392 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the action a familiar ritual. The coffee shop hummed with a low thrum of conversations, but Thomas felt isolated. He hadn't slept well, and the weight of the task ahead settled heavily on his chest.

He found the letter tucked inside a copy of *Moby Dick*. It was yellowed and brittle, bearing the watermark of a long-gone library. His gut tightened.

He had to get this done. He needed to be brave, just for a few moments. His gaze bounced around the room, catching on the faces of people. He gripped the letter a little tighter, the paper crinkling in his hand.

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