nervous - Story 92940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the bouquet at arm's length, the paper crinkling in his grip. The colors of the flowers felt garish in the dim light of his apartment. The scent, sweet and overpowering, made his stomach churn. He'd never liked carnations, especially not this many. He took a step back.

His pulse quickened. He placed the flowers on a table and started to pace, his shoes thudding on the wooden floor. He needed to get out. He grabbed his keys and wallet, the actions mechanical, and slammed the door behind him. He didn’t know where he was going, only that he needed distance.

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