nervous - Story 92560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment building felt like a cage. I kept replaying the conversation, my heart pounding in my chest. My roommate, Jessica, was so passionate about getting a ferret.

I clenched my fists, attempting to project confidence. A vision of the ferret and all its needs, the potential for it to escape, to wreak havoc, filled my mind.

Jessica had such enthusiasm, but for me, it felt like an approaching storm. I needed to get away from the conversation, but I couldn't move.

I found myself tracing the pattern on the wallpaper, hoping to escape the feeling that everything was closing in.

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