nervous - Story 92670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Daniel's chest grew heavier with each passing moment. He kept checking his pockets for his keys, and then putting them back. His breath caught in his throat.

He leaned against the wall, trying to appear calm, but his body was betraying him. His fingers tapped a frantic rhythm against the metal. His eyes darted from the door to the control panel, then back to the door.

He felt a strong urge to scream. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and counted to ten. He repeated the action over and over.

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