nervous - Story 92762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, over and over, as he approached the park. His palms felt damp and clammy. Every step felt like wading through thick mud. John’s throat was dry, and he swallowed hard, trying to moisten it. He kept muttering under his breath, repeating the mantra, *it’s just a tree, it’s just a tree*.

The swing set creaked in the wind, a mournful sound. His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He squinted against the bright sunlight, the world seeming to swim slightly out of focus. He spotted the gap in the foliage, a gaping wound where his childhood memory once stood. His stomach did a strange flip.

He stopped, unable to move forward. The empty space felt like a betrayal.

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