nervous - Story 92929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in front of the ornate door, his fingers brushing against the cold, brass knocker. He had postponed this for weeks. Every breath felt shallow, as though he was trying to breathe underwater. He had a medical condition he shared with the people within the house.

The door swung inwards. A woman with a distinctive purple rash on her face stood before him. Her eyes widened slightly, a flicker of something in them. "Come in," she said, her voice soft. "We have been waiting for you."

The house was large and echoing, full of others with his condition.

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