nervous - Story 92459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. The test results were open on the laptop screen, a list of names and percentages staring back at Ethan. He felt a sudden, intense heat flush his face. He'd always known he was adopted, but the reality of his biological family felt surreal.

He knew he should be happy, excited. But instead, a knot had formed in his stomach. He wasn’t sure how to feel. He closed the laptop. The room seemed to spin. He needed air.

He stood up, pacing, not knowing what to do. What would this mean for his life?

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