nervous - Story 92437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant's grand entrance seemed to mock Leo as he stood on the sidewalk. He kept fiddling with the collar of his shirt. "Uncle Jerry’s Chili," the sign boldly proclaimed. It was his uncle's recipe, one his family had cherished for generations. The restaurant owner was a friend of his family, but he'd taken the recipe and twisted it to their own benefit.

He could feel a flush creeping up his neck. He was tempted to turn and run, to escape the all-too-familiar scents of chili and cumin. But he forced himself to enter.

Inside, the restaurant was packed, diners devouring plates of his family's legacy. He felt an intense disquiet, unable to articulate the depth of it.

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