nervous - Story 92125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the airport seemed thick and heavy, pressing down on Maya. She twisted the strap of her handbag, her knuckles white. Her audition for the lead role in the local theater production was today.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying to find some semblance of calm. Visions of the stage, the bright lights, and the expectant audience swam before her. She took another shaky breath and found she wanted to run away.

She opened her eyes and let them scan the terminal for any sign of her flight status changing. The words "delayed" and "boarding" seemed to taunt her from the displays. Her mouth felt dry, and she swallowed hard.

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