nervous - Story 92867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Henderson stared at the photograph, framed and leaning against the pile of unsorted mail. It was a picture of him and his class, taken years ago. The sender was a name he barely remembered; a student who had moved on to a prestigious career. The photo felt like a judgment.

He ran a hand through his thinning hair. His mouth felt dry, and he took a sip of water, quickly, almost as a reflex. He felt a strange flutter in his stomach. He didn't want to go to the reunion, but the photo compelled him.

He picked up the phone to cancel his social plans. The world was spinning.

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