nervous - Story 92882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie for the tenth time, the silk feeling suddenly constricting against his throat. The gleaming black sedan pulling up to the curb of his neighbor, Mrs. Gable's, house had been a shock. He had always assumed she was a retired librarian.

His palms were slick with perspiration as he walked across his lawn. The manicured perfection of Mrs. Gable’s garden was usually a source of quiet admiration; today, it was an emblem of a different reality. He felt a profound unease settle in his stomach.

"Good luck," he heard his wife mutter as he walked towards the door. It felt like he was about to face a firing squad.

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