nervous - Story 92807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting was set for tomorrow. Daniel stared out at the rain-streaked window, the city lights blurring into streaks of gold and silver. His hands were clasped so tightly together that his knuckles were white. He had spent the entire day reading about his half-brother online, scouring social media, trying to prepare himself. He closed his eyes, his head swimming with unfamiliar information, the pressure behind his eyes a dull ache. He wished he could fast-forward to the end.

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