nervous - Story 92890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty house. The news about Mr. Harrison’s trust fund had him feeling trapped. He had always considered Mr. Harrison a bit of a loner, never seen him spend money.

He grabbed a bottle of water and took a deep, unsteady breath. The image of the lavish parties he would now attend played out in his head, a vision filled with people that he was sure that he would never feel comfortable around.

His hands were trembling as he walked towards the living room and slumped onto the couch.

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