nervous - Story 92418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casino buzzed with a chaotic energy. Lights flashed and sirens blared. He felt overwhelmed, lost. He tried to focus on his surroundings, but all he could see was the wallet in his pocket.

He saw the dealers, the gamblers, the security guards. He was a small fish in a giant pond. He was a trespasser.

He went to the men's room and splashed cold water on his face. He stared at his reflection, a stranger staring back. He left the casino, feeling lighter than before.

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