nervous - Story 92809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam sat on the park bench, picking at the loose threads on his jeans. The air was crisp, the leaves turning brilliant shades of red and gold. He had arranged to meet his half-brother at this park, a neutral territory. He kept glancing at his watch, even though he knew he was early. Every rustle of leaves, every distant shout of children, made him jump. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, and he wiped it away with the back of his hand.

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