nervous - Story 92712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the cramped apartment, his shadow stretching and shrinking on the worn linoleum. The paper in his hand felt like a lead weight. Every creak of the building, every distant siren, sent a jolt of anxiety through him. He stopped at the window, staring out at the rain-slicked street. The world seemed to be moving at a normal pace, while his own existence felt like it was teetering on the edge of a cliff. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

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