nervous - Story 92416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen, the images blurring slightly. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes. He had to think clearly. His whole life might depend on it.

A commercial for a luxury car flashed across the screen, and he quickly changed the channel. He hated the way his hands felt, clammy and useless.

He paced the length of his small apartment, the wallet still clutched in his hand. He wasn't sure what to do, how to act. He imagined the owner, their despair.

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