nervous - Story 92109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact as he introduced himself. The new guy, someone called Mark, seemed too upbeat, too eager. He felt a constant clenching in his stomach. He was being replaced, and it felt like a public execution.

"So, here's the sales database," he mumbled, pointing towards the screen. He kept his gaze fixed on the monitor. He thought of all the times he'd stayed late, all the weekends he'd worked. It felt like a waste.

He kept speaking, but his words felt hollow, meaningless. He wanted to shout, to rage, but he forced himself to stay calm. He clenched his jaw, trying to contain the fury.

He felt a stinging sensation behind his eyes.

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