nervous - Story 92844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone rang, its shrill cry echoing in the quiet apartment. Michael flinched, almost dropping his coffee mug. He glanced at the caller ID: Mr. Peterson, the man from the downstairs unit. His throat tightened.

He answered the phone, his voice tight. Mr. Peterson's voice was sharp, detailing the problem. It was the renovations. The hammering, the drilling. Michael had been trying to get them done quickly, to be considerate.

He listened, his grip tightening on the phone. His head swam. He mumbled agreement and promises, his voice cracking with the effort to remain calm. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

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