nervous - Story 92714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello?" he croaked into the phone, his voice a tight, unfamiliar sound. He’d dialed his sister, hoping for some semblance of sanity. The notice sat on the counter, mocking him. He’d rehearsed what he would say, but now, the words felt trapped, refusing to form. He fiddled with the phone cord, winding it around his finger repeatedly. He wished she would just answer.

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