nervous - Story 92969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers over the worn cover of the list, a tremor running through him. The list was hidden in his partner’s old hiking backpack. He had almost thrown it out, but something had compelled him to look inside. The contents were shocking. "Climb Mount Kilimanjaro." "Learn to code." This life was not the one they lived.

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. He didn’t know how to process this information. He felt exposed, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. He didn't know what to do. His heart was now pounding in his ears.

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