nervous - Story 92842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down David's back as he peered through the peephole. It was Mr. Henderson, the grumbling resident from two doors down. He clutched a folded piece of paper. David's breath hitched. He wasn't even sure what had made the most noise. The dog, the kids, or maybe the washing machine.

He forced a smile as he opened the door, a movement that felt slow and clumsy. His palms were clammy. Mr. Henderson's face was tight with displeasure, and he didn't waste any time. "The drumming," he began, his voice raspy. "It's been quite disruptive."

David felt his stomach clench. He mumbled something about keeping it down. His fingers fidgeted with the loose threads of his shirt, a useless attempt to find something to do. The paper in Mr. Henderson's hand felt like a formal accusation, an indictment.

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