nervous - Story 92836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the numbers, his jaw clenched so tightly it ached. This was not supposed to happen. His wife, Jessica, was usually a paragon of fiscal prudence. He felt his face grow hot.

He felt a tightness in his chest, making it hard to take a full breath. He walked into the living room, trying to distract himself, turning on the TV, but the screen was too bright, the voices too loud. He reached for the remote, switching it off.

He felt the sudden, crushing weight of loneliness. He felt like he had been sucker punched.

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