nervous - Story 92430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on the coffee table, a sleek, unwelcome guest. Mark stared at it, the blood draining from his face. He felt his heart skip a beat. Then another. He felt the cold sweat begin to gather on his palms.

He got up and began to pace. He replayed old arguments in his head, reliving past slights. He started to talk to himself, muttering under his breath. He hated this feeling, this sense of impending doom.

He was not looking forward to the reunion. Not at all.

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