nervous - Story 92789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold seeping into Leo's bones was nothing compared to the chill that was running through him. He sat hunched over his laptop, every muscle tense. He scanned the listing, his gaze darting from one photo to the next. He felt like he was suffocating.

He hadn't been back since he was a teenager. The house held too many ghosts, too many painful memories. Now, here it was, for sale, plastered across the internet, inviting strangers to intrude on his past. He felt a wave of anger wash over him.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He needed to do something, anything. He knew, he was going to have to drive past the house.

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