nervous - Story 92123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a pressure cooker. Sarah drummed her fingers against the armrest, the rhythmic tapping a frantic counterpoint to the announcements echoing through the terminal. Her brother's wedding was tomorrow. She clutched the small, velvet box containing the family heirloom ring.

A cold, clammy feeling settled in the pit of her stomach as she imagined the ceremony without her, her niece and nephew looking for her. The thought sent a jolt down her spine. The departure time kept getting pushed back.

She rose and walked to the window, watching the planes come and go. Each departure felt like a personal betrayal, a reminder of her increasingly precarious situation. She took a deep breath, trying to slow the racing thoughts in her head.

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