nervous - Story 92688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. Marco leaned against the counter, arms crossed, as he watched his son, Luca, knead the dough with practiced ease. He had been so proud to have taught Luca how to bake. Now, Luca's creations were more adventurous, more refined, and the local bakery's business was booming.

Marco’s fingers tapped restlessly against his arms. The heat from the oven felt oppressive. Luca hummed a cheerful tune as he worked, his movements confident and assured. He looked like he owned the place.

Marco cleared his throat, but no sound came out. The kitchen seemed to spin slightly. His head throbbed. He felt an intense need to escape.

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