nervous - Story 92664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny space felt like a pressure cooker. Michael’s breathing grew shallow. He imagined the worst-case scenarios, playing them out in his head on a constant loop.

He wiped his brow with the back of his hand. His gaze darted to the emergency phone, then back to his watch. The second hand seemed to barely move. He felt a profound sense of unease.

“Are you… are you okay?” his coworker, Chloe, asked, her voice concerned. Michael just nodded, unable to speak, his throat constricted. He took a long, deep breath to try and remain composed.

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