nervous - Story 92966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a prickling heat across his neck as he read. The list was tucked inside the old record player. He hadn't expected to find something so… personal. "Visit a jazz club in New Orleans." "Paint a mural." He’d always thought he knew her.

His hands shook as he turned the page, the paper brittle and yellowed with age. He took a step back, the room suddenly feeling too small, too confining. This secret world of hers had been hidden away for years. She would be home in an hour, and he didn't know how he was going to pretend.

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