nervous - Story 92127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slick against the plastic armrests of her seat. Chloe chewed on the inside of her cheek, a habit she thought she'd broken years ago. Her book signing, her first ever, was scheduled for this evening. A wave of panic rose up and down her chest.

She reread the email containing the event details, the image of her book cover filling her mind. She pictured the long line of people, waiting to meet her and to get their copies signed. The thought made her want to vomit.

She felt a tremor in her hands as she pulled out a crumpled piece of paper, a reminder of her book tour. She tried to slow her breathing, and failed.

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