nervous - Story 92577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt different now. He remembered it as a place of endless summers and laughter. Now, it just felt ominous. The swing set creaked in the wind, a mournful sound that echoed his growing distress. He adjusted his glasses, a habitual gesture to refocus. But it didn't help.

He saw her across the lawn, sitting on a bench. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He walked towards her, each footstep heavy.

"Chloe?" he said, the word catching in his throat.

She looked up, confusion etched on her features. "I'm sorry, you've got the wrong person."

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