nervous - Story 92787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The images swam before her eyes. The old oak tree, the swing set, the faded paint on the window shutters… It was all exactly as he remembered. James felt a tremor run through him, starting at his toes and working its way up. He took a sip of water, his hand shaking.

He didn't want to think about the conversations he'd need to have. The memories, the emotions, the unresolved issues—they all lurked just beneath the surface, threatening to bubble over. He wanted to close the browser, to pretend he hadn't seen it, but his fingers were glued to the mouse.

He felt a sudden, urgent need to walk around. He stood, pacing the small apartment. 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