nervous - Story 92104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her hand, threatening to spill its contents. Her gaze kept drifting to the framed photo on her desk, a picture of her and her team at the annual company picnic. It was a good memory. She missed it already. She knew she should have been happy, but all she felt was a tightening in her chest.

"So, this is the filing system," she said, her voice a strained whisper. She gestured towards the overflowing cabinets. Her stomach churned.

Her replacement, a cheerful young woman named Emily, nodded attentively. Each click of the mouse, each shared piece of information, felt like a deliberate blow.

She hated this. She wanted to scream. Instead, she took another shaky sip of her coffee.

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