nervous - Story 92888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the car seemed to fail, leaving a sheen of sweat on his forehead. Mr. Evans, the quiet, unassuming librarian down the street, had just bought the antique car. He kept turning the engine on and off. He didn’t know how to act.

He practiced a nonchalant greeting in his head, over and over, as he approached the front yard. His words seemed to catch in his throat as he got out of the car.

He felt a disquieting sense of being observed, judged even. His jaw felt locked.

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