nervous - Story 92916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The subject line, "Regarding the Oak," seemed to pulse on the screen. He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the empty house.

He got up and started pacing. He kept touching the window sill. His hands felt clammy. He should write back, he knew, but the thought paralyzed him.

He pictured the towering oak, its branches a familiar presence outside his window. A knot formed in his stomach. He wasn't sure how he'd be able to do this.

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