nervous - Story 92905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt unusually long. Sam stared out the window, watching the familiar landscape blur past. He bit his lip, his teeth digging into the soft flesh. He could feel a tremor in his hands, making it difficult to hold the railing. This morning's announcement had unsettled him, a knot tightening in his chest. He imagined all the things he would miss, all the plans undone.

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