nervous - Story 92766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car a block away, unable to bring himself to drive any closer. His hands trembled as he fumbled with the keys, dropping them twice before finally managing to lock the door. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants. He tried to calm himself, but his heart beat against his ribs like a trapped bird.

His legs felt unsteady. He kept his eyes on the ground, tracing the cracks in the pavement as he walked. He focused on counting the steps, one, two, three… anything to distract him.

Then he looked up, and his stomach plummeted. He felt a sudden, intense urge to turn and run.

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