nervous - Story 92880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to a gallery in years. Now, here he was. Thomas felt a prickling heat across his skin as he scanned the room. His work, his private collection, was plastered on the walls. The gallery owner smiled at him, but Thomas could only see an oily sheen.

His breath quickened, a rapid, shallow pant. He tried to steady himself. His heart was hammering. He wanted to be anywhere but here. The room became suffocating.

He turned and bolted, not caring who saw him. He needed air, desperately. The smell of the street was a relief.

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