nervous - Story 92648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found himself staring at the cityscape outside his office window. The urban sprawl, usually a source of inspiration, seemed to amplify his unease. He avoided making eye contact with his colleagues. His jaw was tight.

He'd received the company-wide email a few minutes ago. The details were vague. He knew what it meant.

He reached for his phone, his thumb hovering over his wife's contact. He hesitated. What could he possibly say?

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