nervous - Story 92856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, spiral-bound notebook, his reflection shimmering slightly in the polished surface of the table. His jaw was clenched, his shoulders tight. The weight of the world, it felt, sat upon his shoulders. He hadn’t expected to find this. He flipped the cover open, his vision blurring slightly.

The list was short, surprisingly so. The first item: *Ride a motorcycle across Route 66.* He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture meant to alleviate the pressure building behind his eyes. He had never even sat on a motorcycle. He felt a chill, despite the summer heat.

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