nervous - Story 92796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blood stain that was still visible on the hardwood floor despite the attempts to clean it, his face paling. The house, a Victorian beauty he’d fallen in love with at first sight, had witnessed a brutal act of domestic violence. The detective had been very frank about the details. He ran a hand through his hair, his hand shaking.

His breath hitched in his chest. He felt an intense pressure building in his chest.

He had to get out of the house. He started toward the door, his steps were quick, almost frantic.

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