nervous - Story 92989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and Leo flinched. He stared at the caller ID, then slowly reached for the receiver. His voice felt tight as he answered. He was wary.

He heard the realtor's voice, the practiced cadence, and found himself wanting to hang up, but he stood frozen. He shifted his weight, his leg beginning to tremble. He glanced around his home, at the familiar furniture, the way the light fell through the windows. It all felt like a movie he was being forced to watch, helpless to change the plot.

He managed a few clipped responses, feeling his jaw muscles clench. He ended the call abruptly, his hand shaking as he placed the phone back on its stand. He slumped onto the couch.

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