nervous - Story 92106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the whiteboard, his gaze unfocused. He’d spent the weekend rewriting his resume, and the feeling of uncertainty was overwhelming. He should be the one taking notes, not the other way around.

His knuckles were white as he gripped the dry-erase marker. His mouth felt dry, and he kept licking his lips. He hoped the new hire, a clean-cut guy in a crisp shirt, wouldn’t notice his discomfort.

"So, uh," he began, his voice cracking slightly. He started scribbling on the board, but his hand was shaking. He knew every word, every trick, every shortcut, but the knowledge felt suddenly irrelevant.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run.

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