nervous - Story 92802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling the strands until they stood on end. The cafe buzzed around him, a cacophony of clinking mugs and chatter, but he registered none of it. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, but he found no comfort in the warmth. The letter lay open on the table, the official stationery mocking him. The words, "You have a sister," swam before his eyes. It was a sea of ink. He felt a peculiar tightness in his chest, as if a great weight had settled upon him.

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