nervous - Story 92784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at 3:00 AM. Sleep had been impossible ever since. David sat hunched over his computer, his shoulders tense, his jaw clenched. His fingers drummed a restless rhythm against the desk as he examined the virtual tour. His childhood bedroom, his parents' room, the dusty attic—all showcased in high definition.

He felt a tightness in his chest, making it hard to take a full breath. The layout, the furniture, the overall feel of the house; it was all familiar, and yet utterly alien. He hadn't stepped foot in the place for years, and now, it was for sale.

He pushed back from the desk, unable to look at the screen any longer. He got up and walked to the kitchen and made a cup of tea. He knew he had to talk to his siblings.

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