nervous - Story 92121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat trickled down Amelia’s spine, plastering her silk blouse to her back. She’d checked the departures board for the tenth time in as many minutes, her gaze darting between the screen and the perpetually circling hands of the clock. Her grandmother’s 80th birthday party was tonight. She'd promised to be there, to help with the decorations, to be a familiar face amongst the chaotic joy. Now, the flight to Manchester was delayed. Again.

A tremor shook her hands as she scrolled through the email confirming her RSVP. Images of her grandmother, beaming and surrounded by family, flashed through her mind. The thought of missing it twisted in her stomach.

She walked briskly to the airline desk, her steps quick and her voice sharp as she questioned the agent. The agent’s placid demeanor grated on her. A small knot formed in her jaw, and she began to chew on the inside of her cheek.

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